MARINGOUIN — A cause has not yet been identified for a Maringouin fire that left a mother and her 6-year-old child dead, the State Fire Marshal's Office said Friday. 

Officials said the apartment fire along Ridgewood Drive started around 6:30 a.m. Monday morning and claimed the lives of a 22-year-old Lauren Carter and six-year-old Layton Carter. According to the Iberville Parish Sheriff's Office, about 10 to 15 people were displaced by the fire.

Neighbors remembered Carter as someone who kept to herself and worked hard to care for her son.

"You want me to tell you what the hurtful feeling about this situation with her, man? This a female, like, she go to work and she take care of that little boy, like, she don't mess with nobody, like, she quiet. You wouldn't even know she stay back here, man," Jamison Marshall said earlier this week.