Julio Gonzalez (arsonist)
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Julio Gonzales was convicted in August 1991 of setting the Happyland Fire at the Happy Land Social Club in the Bronx, New York City, on March 25, 1990. The fire killed 87 people, making this the largest spree killing in U.S. history. He was sentenced to 174 twenty-five-year sentences (a total of 4,350 years), the longest sentence ever handed down in New York.
Gonzales was an unemployed Cuban refugee who had argued with his girlfriend at the club earlier on the night of March 25; he was ejected by the bouncer. He was heard to scream drunken threats. He returned to the establishment with a plastic container of gasoline, which he poured on the only staircase into the club.