A 40-year-old Cobb County man accused of setting fire to his mother’s Marietta home after getting mad at her was indicted on three counts of first-degree arson.
A grand jury indicted Johnny Guy Miller on Thursday, three months after he allegedly set his clothes on fire inside his mom’s Knox Drive home.
According to Miller’s arrest warrant, he got upset after hearing his mother talk about him on the phone, locked himself inside his room and set the blaze with a lighter.
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He told authorities he wanted to die and that he heard voices telling him he was already dead when he started the fire, according to his arrest warrant.
“Mr. Miller said that he wanted his mother to breathe the smoke so that she would also die,” his warrant said.
The man’s mother told authorities she wasn’t aware her home was on fire until Cobb firefighters showed up and coaxed her out of the burning house. She also said that “she did not give Mr. Miller permission to burn her residence or damage her property,” according to the warrant.
Miller has been behind bars at the Cobb jail since his April 24 arrest, records show.
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