ELIZABETHTOWN, Ky. (LEX 18) – Elizabethtown Police report a man admitted to shooting two people and then setting a house on fire Wednesday.

According to police, the Elizabethtown Fire Department responded to a structure fire call on Henon Lane and upon arriving at the scene, police found two men dead from gunshot wounds.

Investigators on scene report that the fire was determined to have been started “intentionally.”

Police say witnesses reportedly saw a gold pickup truck leave the scene, which officers later located at a local motel.

According to police, surveillance video showed Dustin Caudill, 45, “getting out of the truck and pulling out a gun.”

Police say that after further investigation, they found “the victims’ personal items in Caudill’s motel room” and that he had also fired a firearm at a third victim.

In an interview, police say Caudill confessed to the crimes, admitting that he “shot the victims and intentionally set the house on fire” and “stole the victims’ wallets and discarded them in a gas station trash can.”

Caudill is booked into the Hardin County Detention Center and faces the following charges:

• first degree arson
• two counts of murder
• manipulation of physical evidence
• possession of a handgun by a convicted felon
• first degree robbery
• wanton endangerment in the first degree