Sharilynn NovaDawn Rustin

The Navajo Nation and the FBI are investigating a fire that claimed the lives of a young mother and her son.

Sharilynn NovaDawn Rustin, 24, and Kinyein Jereil Martinez died in a mobile home fire two days before Christmas. Kinyein would have turned 5 years old yesterday.

Kinyein Jereil Martinez

"It was just heartbreaking to hear what happened to him," aunt Rustina Anderson told The Farmington Daily Times.

Authorities believe the fire was triggered by a wood-burning stove at the family's home on the New Mexico portion of the reservation Calvin Martinez was able to rescue the couple's six-year-old son but couldn't reach his wife and Kinyein.

Rustin and Kinyein are being buried on the reservation of the White Mountain Apache Tribe of Arizona this Saturday.

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Family remembers boy, young wife killed in mobile home fire (The Farmington Daily Times 1/13)