Updated 1:30pm Wednesday

According to the Ohio State Fire Marshal the fires Tuesday night on Frash Rd. and Brown Lane have been ruled arson.

According to a press release, investigators have determined the fires set intentionally set to the home and car of Rosemary Brown and to the mobile home, truck, and Jeep SUV of Charles Turner.

No details have been released about how the fires were started.

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Updated 1:15pm Wednesday

The Morgan County Sheriff's office has released the names involved in a possible murder-suicide investigation.

In a press release Wednesday afternoon, the sheriff's office says that it appears that 61 year old Charles Turner had an altercation with his 55 year old sister Rosemary Brown in her residence at 7200 Frash Road.

Authorities believe that Brown was killed in the altercation. They say Turner then set fire to Brown's home.

According to the press release, Turner then returned home at 7870 Brown Lane and block his driveway.

The Sheriff's office says that Turner then started three fires and then took his own life.

The incident is being investigated as a murder-suicide.

Evidence has been taken from both crime scenes and are waiting for preliminary results from an autopsy.

The Ohio Bureau Of Criminal Identification and Investigation, the State Fire Marshals Office, the Morgan County Coroner and the M & M Fire Department are assisting the Morgan County Sheriff's Department with the investigation.
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Officials with the Morgan County Sheriff's Department are treating two crime scenes as a possible murder-suicide.

Morgan County Sheriff Thomas Jenkins says around 10:45 Tuesday night officials received two phone calls regarding two separate fires in Malta.

As firefighters battled a house fire on Frash Road, they heard an explosion coming from the location of the other fire, roughly one hundred yards north, on Brown Road.

Due to the explosion in the area and possible shots being fired officials entered the Brown Road property and found several fires and a body at the scene.

They also discovered another body back at the Frash Road residence.

The incident is being investigated as a possible murder-suicide.

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