Arson investigators discovered a man dead in a shed Thursday evening near a Monrovia home that exploded in flames days earlier.
“It was just a huge boom,” said neighbor Sherrie Vollaire the afternoon of the fire. “I mean it shook the building.”
At the time of the fire, crews said that one person, believed to be a tenant, was unaccounted for and a search was underway.
Monrovia police were called to the scene Thursday around 10 p.m. as arson investigators discovered a man, dead in an unattached shed nearby, which was not involved in the original fire.
The Office of the Los Angeles County Medical Examiner-Coroner was notified and will work to identify the man and determine the cause of death.