Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court July 26, 2012 (Commonwealth v. Dung Van Tran)

Dueely, J.

Late in the afternoon of January 8, 2007, the defendant drove to the apartment of his estranged wife, Lien Lam, and their two children.1 After entering the apartment and speaking briefly with his six year old son, the defendant retrieved a can of gasoline from his vehicle and carried it into the room where his fourteen month old daughter, Diana, was sleeping.