The Lilburn home that was the site of a meth lab fire that killed three children last year will be demolished in the next few days, Gwinnett County police said.
The department said it received notification that the likely three-day process to tear down the house in the 1100 block of Spring Mill Drive will start soon.
Isaac Guevara, 4, Ivan Guevara, 3, and 18-month-old Stacy Brito died following the Feb. 17, 2011 fire.
"This location has been a constant reminder of the tragedy that occurred there, and hopefully its demolition will bring some closure to the community," Gwinnett police spokesman Cpl. Jake Smith said in a news release.
Investigators determined that the fire was related to drug manufacturing, and police believe at least one of the three suspects was cooking meth when the blaze broke out.
Neibi Briton, 23, the mother of the deceased children, remains in the Gwinnett County Detention Center charged with three counts of felony murder and one count of trafficking methamphetamine.
Joseph A. Perez, whose face was burned during the fire, faces the same charges as Briton. He was arrested by Gwinnett County Sheriff’s Office deputies and U.S. Immigrations and Customs Enforcement agents in College Park six days after the fatal blaze.
Ivan Gonzalez, 27, the third suspect in the case, faces identical charges and remains at large. He has a large tattoo on the outside of one calf. Anyone with information on his whereabouts should call detectives at 770-513-5300 or Crime Stoppers at 404-557-8477.
Brito and her children lived in the house with her boyfriend, Gonzalez, and the third suspect, Perez.
Narcotics investigators said they found more than $190,000 in the walls of the home. They also said they discovered more than 4,500 grams of liquid methamphetamine and about 1 pound of finished methamphetamine. More drugs were destroyed in the fire, they said.
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