A fire that killed a 53-year-old woman in Sioux Falls in July has been ruled a homicide.
Sioux Falls Police spokesman Sam Clemens said a 34-year-old woman killed Charice Marie Admire when she set a fire in an apartment hallway on the evening of July 17th.
Admire was transported to a Minneapolis hospital, where she died the next day. The suspect is still in the hospital and has not been formally charged. Her name has not been released.
Clemens said it took several weeks to rule the death a homicide because police were waiting for the autopsy results. He said the coroner ruled the death as homicide by smoke inhalation.
The suspect set the fire after a disagreement with others inside the apartment. There were several people inside, and most of them were able to get out. The fire started in the hallway before the suspect ran into the apartment with the people inside. Clemens said he didn’t know why the suspect and the victim were unable to get out of the apartment.