After police in LaFayette, Ga., charged a volunteer firefighter in one of a string of arsons in the town over the last five years, the community enjoyed a lull in random fires.
But when an abandoned shed was burned May 4, LaFayette police Detective Sgt. Darin Kelley said his heart dropped.
Was it a copycat arsonist?
“It did run through our mind,” Kelley said.
But once he began to investigate the charred building off East Indiana Street, Kelley decided it was an isolated fire that probably was lit out of spite.