Police beat LRPD: Fire death a homicide


Police beat                    LRPD: Fire death a homicide

Little Rock police spokesman       Little Rock.
Lt. Terry Hastings said that       Neighbors we've spoke to said
the man found dead in his S.       Sjodin — known for his white,
Valentine Street home on           Santa Claus-like beard — kept
Sunday after a fire died of        to himself, but added that
blunt force trauma and smoke       young men often visited the
inhalation.                        house at all hours of the day
Hastings refused to identify       and night — something that
the victim, citing the             had caused quite a bit of
ongoing investigation, but         speculation and chatter in
neighbors have told The            the neighborhood.
Arkansas Blog that the man         UPDATE: Just talked to Lt.
who lived at the house was         Terry Hastings again, and he
Jim Sjodin, a local organist       said he could neither confirm
seen in this youtube video.        nor deny at this point that
Sjodin was the pianist for         the dead man was Sjodin.
Highland Valley United             More details as they come...
Methodist Church in West           

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