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Home » Omaha House Explosion Victim Sought Order Against Grandson

Omaha House Explosion Victim Sought Order Against Grandson

Published by Nikki Palmer on Tue, 12/15/2020 - 12:00am

Firefighters work the scene of a deadly explosion that leveled a home in Omaha, Tuesday, Dec. 8, 2020. (AP)
By 
Margery A. Beck
The Associated Press

A woman killed in an Omaha house explosion had filed a protection order against her 28-year-old grandson a day before the explosion, saying she feared the man would harm her and “start my house on fire,” court records show.

Omaha fire officials identified two people killed in the blast last Tuesday morning as Theresa Toledo, 73, and Angela Miller, 45.

Alexander Toledo, 28, died last Wednesday at a burn unit in Kansas City, Missouri, police said. He had been found by neighbors severely burned and sitting outside the destroyed home after the blast.

Larry Rodriguez, 72, also was critically injured in the blast, officials said. Officials have not said what caused the blast, which was heard and felt miles away and was powerful enough to severely damage the homes on either side of the destroyed house.

Family members of the victims identified Miller as Theresa Toledo’s daughter and said Rodriguez was the older woman’s partner, The Omaha World-Herald reported.

Documents filed by Theresa Toledo last Monday in Douglas County Court identified Alexander Toledo as her grandson. In the filing, she asked a judge to order her grandson out of the house and to stay away from her and her home.

“I need Alex out of my house now before he destroys my house or harms me,” she said in the written request, adding that she believed her grandson was using methamphetamines and psychedelic mushrooms.

“He has put holes in the basement walls where he stays, and you can’t even walk in the basement,” she wrote. “He has electronics in the walls and ceiling. I’m afraid he will start my house on fire.”

A judge granted the domestic abuse protection order that day.

Witnesses to the blast in the neighborhood said they found one of the victims, a younger man presumed to be Alex Toledo, sitting outside the destroyed home with severe burns. One neighbor, Melanie Grabowski, said his clothes had been “burned off him.”

Fire officials said the blast and resulting fire also killed a family dog. Another dog found at the scene was given oxygen by firefighters and is expected to survive.

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