STORRS -- A Sherman man is facing several charges months after police found three cars burned out outside an apartment complex near UConn's Storrs campus.
Early on October 11, Troopers responded to a fire on Carriage House road in Storrs. A 911 caller said someone tried to light the door to his apartment on fire and three cars were burning outside. Police said the night before, about 50 people attended a party there, but two people were asked to leave several times.
One of the two who were asked to leave said "it would be a shame if something happened to this place tonight" on his way out.
Through the course of the investigation, State Police detectives determined the fire was an act of arson. Detectives developed two suspects, Kuhn and another man, Logan Rama.
In interviews with police, Kuhn admitted that he and Rama bought gas at Cumberland Farms and came back to Carriage House Drive. Kuhn told police they poured gasoline over the cars and the front door of apartment 5A, lit the gas on fire and left.
On Tuesday night, UConn students reacted to the arrest and recalled what they heard and saw the morning of the fires.
"I woke up in the middle of the night and I heard some commotion outside," said UConn senior Will Woznicki, who lives a few doors down. "I heard popping."
"I remember we had walked back from the bar, and we saw that there was, like, a big party going on," said UConn senior Brendan Madigan. "But then...woke up the next morning and there was cops there until probably 1 or 2 in the afternoon."
Madigan said that since the fires, security has been stepped up. "Since then, we've had a security guard every Thursday, Friday, Saturday night drive up and down the road. You can see their lights flashing in the window."
