Homeowner Facing Foreclosure Commits Suicide By Setting Home Ablaze, Say Cops

In Elk River, Minnesota, the Minneapolis Star Tribune reported last month:

• The man who died when his Elk River house burned set the fire on purpose in what police said [...] was a rare manner of suicide. Corey R. Cook, 43, used a flammable liquid to start the fire [...], police said. Police said Cook's home was under foreclosure. He died of smoke inhalation, police said. No one else was in the home at the time.

Source: Man who died after setting house on fire is ID'd; home was under foreclosure.

See also, Elk River fire claims man’s life (Elk River Star News).

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