A 15-year-old boy has been arrested for allegedly setting fire to his Georgia home, and killing his 10-year-old sister in the process.
Zoe McCue, 10, was found dead trapped inside her windowless bedroom after a fire broke out at her family’s single-story Beaver Road home in Loganville shortly before 5am on Sunday.
Gwinnett County firefighters have since said they believe the fire was intentionally set, and police are investigating the girl’s death as a homicide.
They have already arrested the girl’s 15-year-old brother – who has not been named as he is a minor – in connection with the fire after he was found safe from the fire at another location hours later.
Charges against the boy are pending, as police and fire department officials continue to investigate the devastating fire, which destroyed the McCue family’s home and also killed their two cats.
DailyMail.com has reached out to the Gwinnett County Fire Department for more information.
Zoe McCue (pictured) was found dead inside her Georgia home after a fire broke out at around 5am on Sunday. Authorities have now arrested her 15-year-old brother in connection with the fire, which they believe was set intentionally
Gwinnett County firefighters arrived at the scene of the fire in Loganville to find it engulfed in flames
The house suffered extensive damage throughout its front half and the attic
Gwinnett County firefighters arrived on the scene of the single-story home shortly before 5am on Easter Sunday to discover it engulfed in heavy flames.
‘Once our crews arrived on [the] scene, we had heavy fire involvement throughout the entire front of the structure,’ Lt. Justin Wilson told FOX 5. ‘It was just hidden away from a small wood line.’
A mother-of-five and two of her children had already escaped the home before fire crews arrived, officials told the Atlanta Journal-Constitution, while the father and a teenage sibling were at work when the fire broke out.
But fire department officials were soon told that two children – a 15-year-old boy and a 10-year-old girl – were believed to have been stuck inside the home.
‘Multiple aggressive search attempts were executed to locate the missing children,’ Wilson said in a statement, adding: ‘After the fire was brought under control, a 10-year-old female victim was located deceased in [a] room used as a bedroom without window access.’
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