22-Year-Old Woman Charged With Killing Her Mother, Setting Baltimore Home On Fire
BALTIMORE (WJZ) — A 22-year-old Baltimore woman was arrested Monday for allegedly killing her mother, police said.
Baltimore City Fire and Police departments responded to a home on S. Morely Street on March 6 for a fire at around 12:50 a.m.
Firefighters extinguished the fire and discovered 50-year-old Tinestta Young unresponsive inside the home, and she was pronounced dead at the scene.
"I was asleep," Betty Carr, a neighbor, said. "I slept through the whole thing. That next morning, they told me that she was inside and they brought her out."
Police said they immediately collected signs that Young did not die as a result of the fire. Doctors later determined she died from asphyxiation.
Police arrested Young's daughter, 22-year-old Eshyna Young in the 600 block of E. 38th Street. She has been charged with first-degree murder and first-degree arson.
Carr said the incident was a surprise to her.
"That was her only daughter," Carr said. "She didn't have any other children. I never seen any big problems with them or anything like that. So I'm really in shock."
Young is currently waiting to see a court commissioner. The motive for the murder has not been determined yet, police said.
