Police: Argument Preceded Mundelein House Explosion, Fire
(CBS) -- Police in Mundelein say a house explosion last Friday which killed a man and critically injured another - may have been no accident.
It was the garage that first exploded and caught fire. In that garage: gasoline and racing fuel.
That's what Mundelein Police Deputy Chief Don Hansen says investigators have determined. And that the fire spread to the home.
"Our investigators were told that shortly before the explosion being reported, two of the residents there had been in a verbal argument at the house."
Deputy Chief Hansen says the Lake County coroner's office determined the man who died, died of self-inflicted injuries.
And the coroner's office says that means he died from the explosion which he apparently set.
At first it was thought it might have been an accidental natural gas incident. Now that has been ruled out.
Carol Schultz lives across the street.
"There was a propane tank, I believe a steel cylinder was in the middle of the road," she said "It just was laying there and it had holes in it."
That man is still not being identified.
He is believed to be a member of the family who lived at the Mundelein home.