Brandi Sturdivant admitted responsibility for a 2022 house fire that killed her three young children. A judge sentenced the 32-year-old to 30 to 36 years in prison this week.
Sturdivant pleaded guilty to three counts of second-degree murder in Greensboro. The plea came nearly four years after the December 2022 blaze at her home on Grimsley Street.
She had left her 1-year-old twins and 4-year-old child alone in the house. Sturdivant told police she turned on a living-room stove to heat the home before leaving.
Neighbors called 911 after discovering the fire. First responders found the children inside, and autopsies later showed they died from smoke inhalation and carbon monoxide poisoning.
Investigators determined the stove was not the cause of the fire. The exact origin remains unknown, though a gasoline can was found on the front stoop.
