Fatal Latta fire investigated as homicide
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Fatal Latta fire investigated as homicide
Dillon County authorities are treating a man's death in a house fire Monday as a homicide.Dillon County authorities are treating a man’s death in a house fire Monday as a homicide.
Firefighters were called to a home on Legare Street in Latta about 2 a.m. Monday.
The one person who was inside the home at the time, Harry Bethea Jr., died in the fire, according to Shipman’s Funeral Home of Latta.
Bethea’s body was sent to the Medical University of South Carolina in Charleston for an autopsy to help determine the cause of death.
It’s not yet clear how the fire started, but the State Law Enforcement Division agents are assisting in the investigation.
Investigators said they cannot release any more details at this time as to the cause of fire or the victim’s death.
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Ihope that they find out who killed Mr. Harry Jr. Dillon County Sheriff Department need to investigate this fire better than they did the house fire that killed Josephine Sellers a couple years ago. That family never found out what happen. If these people are not caught and made to pay for killing innocent people then we just might have another fire fatality in the small town of Latta. Justice need to be served for Mr. Bethea. I believe that if the Sheriff Department solve this homicide they will also solve the details of the fire that happen down the street at the Sellers resident. The residents in that area need to feel safe again. Too many strange fires in such a small area and no results.
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