Helena-West Helena police are investigating after someone set a house on fire Wednesday night and then shot at the residents who were trying to leave the burning home.
A release from the Police Department said no one was injured.
Police were called to 324 N. 2nd St. at 11:40 p.m. on a report that someone had just set the house on fire. The caller told police two men dressed in dark clothing ran from the house. As officers arrived they also reported seeing the two men fleeing the area but they were not able to find them again.
The Helena-West Helena Fire Department arrived and put out the fire before it spread throughout the house.
Police Chief Virgil Green said in the release that officers found two Molotov cocktails outside the house and it appears the men were trying to set the house on fire and ambush the residents when they went outside.
The residents told police gunshots were fired as they tried to run out of the house. Green said investigators are interviewing everyone who was in the house searching for a motive.
Green also said police have a name but no suspects have been arrested.
Metro on 09/25/2015