While trying to execute a search warrant for a flare gun discharge, an occupant fired several shots at police shortly before an explosion leveled the house.

The owner of a Virginia house that exploded outside the nation’s capital as police tried to execute a search warrant ranted about his neighbors on social media and filed federal lawsuits that were dismissed as frivolous against his ex-wife,

Officials in Arlington, Virginia, held a news conference Tuesday to confirm details in the investigation into a massive house explosion that occurred after Arlington County Police Department officers tried to serve a warrant at the location Monday.

Video of the incident in a Washington, D.C., suburb showed an explosion engulfing the property and sending debris flying into the air.

Police in Arlington, Va., are investigating a massive explosion at a house where officers were trying to serve a search warrant