WATCH ABOVE: Fletcher Kent provides details on a bizarre incident in north Edmonton.
EDMONTON – Police are investigating an incident in north Edmonton that resulted in a man covered in blood calling for help and a fire inside a Abbottsfield home.
Neighbour Sean Mitchell said he came home after working a night shift when at about 6:30 a.m. Tuesday a man covered in blood banged on his door and asked Mitchell to call police. Mitchell made the phone call, he said, but after returning to his front door the man was gone.
“It looked like it could have been his. I mean he looked pretty beat up, but I didn’t get a good look at him. It was dark and he just came up,” explained Mitchell.
Fire officials said they first received a call for medical aid, but about an hour-and-a-half later they returned after a fire broke out at the residence next door to Mitchell’s home.
“I’m waiting for the cops and there’s a bunch of people standing around just kind of staring and pointing so I go and look and there’s smoke pouring out of the place and you can hear it burning,” said Mitchell.
“There was some kind of domestic something of another going on, and there was a fire inside,” said Ian Woodall, Acting Captain Fire Investigations.
Some of the individuals rescued from the home were handcuffed by police.
“It seemed like there was a couple of guys and a group of girls, but they actually seemed pretty young, one of them almost seemed like a minor,” added Mitchell.
Fire officials believe the blaze was deliberately set.
Police have taken over the investigation.