Two Georgia Residents Trapped by Burglar Bars Killed
FULTON COUNTY, Ga. --
Trapped by burglar bars, two people were killed Wednesday morning in a house fire in south Fulton County.
The bodies of Annie Pearl Mitchell, 77, and a male in his 60s were found inside the back door of the house in the 2100 block of Sandgate Circle, according to Fulton County fire department officials.
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The male victim was Mitchell's live-in caretaker. Relatives said Mitchell suffered from severe arthritis.
"She could walk very little," said Charles Turner, Mitchell's son-in-law. "She couldn't have gotten out of there in a hurry. She would have had to crawl out."
Mitchell's nephew and his infant child were able to escape through the front door of the burning house.
There's no word yet on a cause of the fire.