A residential fire in Greensboro on Sunday afternoon ended in tragedy, and now multiple agencies are working to determine exactly what happened.
According to Guilford County Sheriff Danny Rogers, deputies with the Guilford County Sheriff’s Office responded at approximately 2:35 p.m. on Sunday, April 12 to a home at 5417 Hunsucker Road after a neighbor reported seeing smoke coming from the residence.
When first responders arrived, the Greensboro Fire Department entered the home and located the homeowner, 95-year-old Kathryn Johnson, deceased inside.
Authorities said the woman’s next-of-kin has been notified.
The response drew a large number of agencies, which is typical in cases where both a fire and a death are involved.
In addition to the Sheriff’s Office and the Greensboro Fire Department, personnel from Guilford County EMS, the Guilford County Fire Marshal’s Office, the Guilford County Medical Examiner’s Office, the North Carolina Department of Insurance, the North Carolina Office of the State Fire Marshal, and the North Carolina State Bureau of Investigation all responded to the scene.
Officials say the case remains an active and ongoing death and fire investigation, with multiple agencies working together to determine the cause of the fire and the circumstances surrounding Johnson’s death.
At this point, authorities have released very little additional information, and they say there’s nothing further to report for now.
Anyone who may have information related to the incident is being asked to contact Detective Master Corporal J. Allen with the Guilford County Sheriff’s Office at 336-641-2799 or call Guilford County Crime Stoppers
Why is a 95 year old living alone, not good. Where is her life relatives??
It is her choice, would be mine, too.
Well said
Mine also Miller, my mother lived alone until she was 87. Drove everyday. She wasn’t going to live any other way. I’m going to be that way until I’m not.
My MIL was 101 when she passed. She lived on her own until she was 99 by choice. I tried to convince her to move in with us but she didn’t want to.
I personally believe it’s a generational thing. As for relatives, we checked on her regular and I would go over to help her work in her garden.
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Horrible way to die, but at least she wasn’t burned alive as a young gay man in a Muslim country. How barbaric.
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In the same vein, I once had a customer who liked me a lot, and whom I liked a lot. We often talked about existential and philosophical matters, and he once told me that he wanted to die instantaneously, like a light switch being turned off. I came to regard Mr Gregory as a friend, as we saw eye-to-eye on many issues. He was a magnificent old black man, obviously a fantastic athlete in his youth, over 6 feet tall and with shoulders to match. He never said that he was a Republican, but I suspected he was.
One day about a decade ago I thought I’d stop by his house but I got an awful sense of foreboding as I pulled in his driveway. His Lincoln was there, but no sign of life in the house.
Immediately I stopped at his son’s house, only to learn that he had died. His son told me that his father had visited the old Libby Hill restaurant on Summit Avenue on a quiet weekday afternoon, and sat down in the small dining room on the left side.. He was the only customer at that time, and when the waitress returned with his drink, she found him flat on the floor, unresponsive.
The paramedics said he was dead before he hit the floor. It was a massive stroke.
So he passed away just as he wished, just as a light switch is flipped off.
I’m glad you got what you wanted, Mr Gregory. I hope to go the same way, but I know I have very little say in the matter.
We enjoyed our little chats, and it was my privilege to have known you.
God Bless.
touching story but what exactly does this have to do with the 95 year old woman?
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The manner of dying.
How we die…. how we would want to die. Being burned alive is probably the worst. Checking out in an instant probably the best.
Oh dear! My condolences to her family.