BATON ROUGE - Twice in three months, a house on Highland Road has been draped in yellow caution tape after a 67-year-old man was previously shot on the front porch, and then Saturday when the house caught fire.

The house is located at the corner of East Buchanan Street and Highland Road, and the Baton Rouge Fire Department says the house was vacant and became engulfed in flames around 7:00 a.m.

Squatters had apparently occupied the house, but the home's gas and electricity were not connected at the time of the fire.

"I went out there and saw the damage to the home," District Attorney Hillar Moore said. "It seems to be intentionally set for whatever reason."

The fire department says the cause of the fire is still under investigation.

Pam Jones and Frances Howard spoke to WBRZ at the en

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