PHOTO BY KEITH VIGLIONE
A firefighter is pictured at the scene of a Jan. 29 fatal fire on Beach Road in Lynn.
By GAYLA CAWLEY
LYNN — Investigators have determined that the early morning Jan. 29 fatal fire on Beach Road was intentionally set by the victim, Alexander Joshua, according to the Essex County District Attorney’s office.
“The fire was intentionally set, we believe by the deceased,” said Carrie Kimball Monahan, spokeswoman for the Essex County District Attorney’s office. “He had some self-inflicted injuries in addition to having set the home on fire. I don’t know if the injuries killed him or the fire. But we know that Mr. Joshua took his own life.”
Monahan said Joshua, 41, had self-inflicted stab wounds.
Joshua lived in the third floor apartment of the 20-unit building at 11 Beach Road. The three-alarm fire started in the apartment’s living room.
The blaze displaced 26 people. There were no other injuries.
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