HALFWAY, Md. — A Hagerstown man was arrested Thursday morning after investigators determined that he started a fire inside a storage unit on purpose. Now he's facing an attempted murder charge because someone was inside the unit at the time.

Halfway Volunteer Fire Company responded to Halfway Self-Storage unit at 17324 Virginia Ave. in Hagerstown shortly before 8 a.m. after a call came in about a building on fire. When firefighters reached the storage unit they found an 8-by-40-foot storage unit fully engulfed in flames. They were able to quickly contain the fire before it was able to spread to other units.

Investigators learned quickly that one person was injured in during the fire and were able to identify the victim and the suspect. The suspect was 23-year-old Leviathan Godwin. The vi

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