Damage is shown following a fire at 600 Glendale Court, Apartment C24. Officers reported Mykia Rena Hardy, 28, said she intentionally set the blaze with her children inside the home. No injuries were reported.
Damage is shown following a fire at 600 Glendale Court, Apartment C24. Officers reported Mykia Rena Hardy, 28, said she intentionally set the blaze with her children inside the home. No injuries were reported.
A Greenville woman is in custody for allegedly setting fire to an apartment with her children inside.
Greenville police and Greenville Fire-Rescue personnel said they received a call of a fire at 600 Glendale Court, apartment C24, at 12:15 a.m. Tuesday. The building is near the South Greenville Recreation Center and a few blocks north of J.H. Rose High School.
No one was inside the residence when officers arrived and no injuries were reported. However, a spokesperson for the department said that the apartment’s resident, Mykia Rena Hardy, 28, told officers she had intentionally set fire to the residence while two of her children, ages 4 and 8, were inside.
Officers determined Hardy had left the residence with her children during the fire, but she returned to the scene later.
Hardy was charged with a count of first-degree arson and two counts of child abuse. She was jailed in the Pitt County Detention Center.
A spokesperson for Greenville Fire-Rescue said that the fire had multiple areas of origin and was extinguished within 15 minutes. She said that the fire did not spread to any other residences.
