Fire death investigated as suspicious

LUCEDALE, Miss. (AP) - Authorities say they're still working to identify a person killed in a suspicious fire early in George County.

One person was found dead inside a home destroyed by the fire on Thursday.

Shonna Pierce, public information officer at the George County Sheriff's Office, tells The Mississippi Press (http://bit.ly/NtafU5 ) that the body was burned so band that investigators on the scene couldn't tell if it was a man or woman.

The case is being investigated as a suspicious death by multiple agencies, including the George County Sheriff's Office, the Mississippi Bureau of Investigations, the State Fire Marshal and District Attorney Tony Lawrence's office.

Pierce said the body is currently in the Jackson crime laboratory, where an autopsy will be performed.