Abandoned house where Markeith Loyd hid had $900K lien for code enforcement violations

ORLANDO, Fla. — City crews boarded up the Carver Shores home on Lescot Lane where police found accused police killer Markeith Loyd hiding Tuesday night.

The abandoned structure is around the corner from the house where Lt. Debra Clayton’s mother-in-law lives.

Police said Clayton, who was posthumously promoted from master sergeant to lieutenant, was gunned down by Loyd in a Walmart parking on Jan. 9.

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The owner of the property where Loyd was found died more than five years ago.

Police said they don’t know how Loyd got inside or how long he’d been in the home.

A woman who lives nearby told Channel 9 she hasn’t seen anyone in the home in years, and the Orlando Utility Commission said the property hasn’t has electric or water service since 2012.

Photos: Scene where Markeith Loyd was captured

“It’s just crazy to know that all of us was here and grieving and things, and he was found right around the corner,” said family friend Jarvis Grant.

Grant said Clayton’s husband's family lives down the road.

“I just never thought he would be this close,” he said.

According to records, the property owner died in 2011.

Records show his step-granddaughter petitioned to take over the estate.

Another batch of records shows the property has a roughly $900,000 lien for unpaid code enforcement violations dating back to the year 2000.

“It’s been a while since anybody lived there,” Grant said.

Loyd may have seen the property before.

Photos: Accused killer Markeith Loyd

Prison records show the address he listed after his release in 2002 is on the other side of the creek behind the house.

“This house has been abandoned for a little minute now, but with the curtains being up, you would have never suspected that he was hiding out there,” said nearby resident Kenneth Lee.

One woman said she saw someone clean out the property a few weeks ago, but no signs of life or the city’s most-wanted man.

The city slapped on another set of code violations for landscaping issued on Wednesday.

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