3 Victims From Deadly Edgewood Fire Identified

HARFORD COUNTY, MD — All three victims in the May 9 fatal fire in Edgewood have been identified. A week after the blaze, authorities released the identities of two people who died and said a third person who perished had not been identified pending an investigation.

Dionne Dominique Hill, 32, was named as the third victim, the Harford County Sheriff's Office reported on May 21.

Ernest Milton Lee, 57, and Kimberly Ann Shupe, 47, also died in the fire on Simons Court, according to authorities. The Harford County Sheriff's Office released their names a week after the deadly blaze, on Thursday, May 16.

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Someone called 911 to report the fire on Simons Court in Edgewood after 2 a.m. on Thursday, May 9, State Fire Marshal Brian Geraci said afterward. There were heavy fire conditions when firefighters arrived, and one of the people inside jumped from the second or third floor to escape.

Three residents died, two people were injured, three escaped without injuries and one person was not at home at the time of the fire, according to Geraci.

One victim remains hospitalized at Johns Hopkins Bayview Medical Center, authorities reported on Thursday, May 16.

Investigators said they were treating the probe of the fire as a criminal investigation.

Nine rooms were set up for people to live in at the residence, which was not inspected as would have been required by the code if it were operating as a boarding house, Geraci said.

"We're running a fire investigation, and we're looking at the code side as well," he reported at a press conference on May 9. "It's not licensed; it's not documented; it hasn't had any inspections."

The Office of the State Fire Marshal, the Harford County Sheriff's Office and the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives are conducting the investigation.