A Pineville man and a teenager died in a house fire on March 18 in the 500 block of Grant Street.
According to the State Fire Marshal’s Office (SFM), the Pineville Fire Department responded to the fire around 2:30 a.m. on Saturday. Firefighters found four people outside of the home who said two more were still inside. The two victims’ bodies were later found in the stairwell and living room areas, which were below a second-floor bedroom that had collapsed into the living room.
A GoFundMe recently created appears to identify the victims as Booker T. Gray, 57, and Serenity Sullivan, 16.
There were six people in the home at the time of the fire, including a grandmother and her brother, her two adult sons and two grandchildren (a 16-year-old girl and a 5-month-old boy).