Police Search For Public Enemy #1 After Fatal New Year's Day Fire

BALTIMORE (WJZ)--Baltimore Police are still searching for Alan Floyd, the city's current Public Enemy #1 and suspect in the city's first homicide in 2016.

Amy Yensi has more on the suspect who's still on the run.

Public Enemy Number One, that's what Baltimore City Police are calling Alan Lorenzo Floyd after they say he intentionally lit a fire, killing a 61-year-old woman.

The woman who owns the home that went up in flames didn't want to show her face , but says she's been renting the residence to Floyd.

"The house is not important what matters is the life that died in there," said the woman. "He seems like he just couldn't along with anybody. There was a couple that lived next door and I've known for years and he couldn't get along with them."

Emergency crews responding to the fire on the 2300 block East Madison Street found the woman's body inside Friday afternoon.

Floyd is accused of dousing the house with accelerant, setting it on fire and then blocking the door so that the two people inside wouldn't get out.

Police say the incident appears to be related to an ongoing dispute between Floyd and someone else in the house. The woman killed was not the intended target.

"He tried to kill someone and then he killed someone else," said Baltimore Police Spokesperson T.J. Smith.

The 59-year-old suspect has been on the run ever since.

This fatal fire marks Baltimore's first homicide of 2016 and follows one of the deadliest in the history of the city.

The Red Cross is helping families in the homes that were affected by the fire.

Police say Floyd does have a prior criminal history.

If you have any information that can help police catch him, you're urged to call Metro Crime Stoppers at 1866-7LOCKUP.