ROCHESTER, N.Y. — Hours after a body was found inside a boarded up home in Rochester, the house went up in flames. Police say it’s a homicide case, which is why News10NBC decided to take a closer look at what happened at that house on Bloomingdale Street, just off North Clinton Avenue.

Video shot by a neighbor shows flames shooting out of an upstairs window, explaining the damage seen at the house on Thursday. It was inside one of the rooms where police found the body of a man they later identified as John Johnson Jr.. Police consider it a homicide.

When crimes like this happen, the people who live in the neighborhood get afraid. That’s why one neighbor agreed to talk to News10NBC’s Chief Investigative Reporter Berkeley Brean, if her face wasn’t shown or name used.

“It impacts me because I live on this street and it’s a quiet street, but when I found out there was a dead (body) it’s like, now it’s happening,” the neighbor said. “And it can happen later. Who knows?”

The neighbor described the activity she saw at the house before the body was discovered.

Neighbor: “It was in and out, in and out, in and out.”

Berkeley Brean, News10NBC: “You were seeing people go in and out.”

Neighbor: “In and out of the house, yes.”

Berkeley Brean: “What does that tell you?”

Neighbor: “It tells me they were doing drugs in there, selling drugs in an abandoned house.”

City records show and police say the house was boarded up in July. But when police went inside to investigate, they said it was clear that someone was living there.

“It’s a little unique. It’s boarded up so on the outside it appears to be vacant,” said Capt. Greg Bello with the Rochester Police Department. “But at the same time when you’re in the house it appears that people are living there, at least one person is living there.”

The house has been delinquent on taxes for four straight years, and the city spent $50 to board it up in July. The city told News10NBC this house was not on the demolition list, but the city and the owner, based in Louisiana, are talking about tearing it down.

Police have not said if they have anyone in custody for the dead body found in the house.

Fire officials say no one was in the house when the fire broke out.

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