Two people died in a house fire early Monday morning in Lexington Park.
The Office of the State Fire Marshal and St. Mary’s County Sheriff’s Office investigated the blaze in the 21700 block of Cabot Place that claimed two lives and displaced four others.
“It remains under investigation,” Oliver Alkire, a senior deputy fire marshal, said Tuesday.
The first 911 call was received at 1:19 a.m. on March 20 when an occupant woke up to smoke and discovered a fire within the basement, according to a release from the fire marshal’s office. The person who discovered the fire and two others escaped the two-story home.
Upon the arrival of firefighters, they were told two people were still trapped inside the home. They later subsequently located the two victims on the second floor, identified as Jerome Garcia Barnes, 59, and Mary Jacqueline Queen, 62.