The 17-year-old accused of killing two North Carolina highschool college students has been arrested, weeks after their our bodies had been discovered off a street in Orange County.
The sheriff’s workplace introduced the arrest on Wednesday however mentioned it couldn’t launch any particulars due to juvenile safety legal guidelines.
The teenager was needed within the deaths of Lyric Woods, 14, and Devin Clark, 18, who had been reported lacking earlier than their deaths. Their our bodies had been found on Sept. 18 by two males who had been using four-wheelers, the Orange County Sheriff’s Workplace mentioned. It appeared that each of them had been shot.
“We hope this apprehension offers some reduction to the households and pals of Devin and Lyric, who’ve skilled an excruciating loss,” Sheriff Charles Blackwood mentioned in a press release Wednesday.
“Clearly, the seize of the suspect doesn’t restore their cherished one to them. The grieving course of is an extended one, and we hope the group will proceed to help them of their ache.”
The sheriff’s workplace beforehand filed a juvenile petition towards the suspect, initiating a course of to have the teenager tried as an grownup within the state’s superior courtroom system. A sheriff’s workplace spokesperson mentioned Thursday that the case continues to be in juvenile courtroom.
Woods was a freshman at Cedar Ridge Excessive College in Hillsborough, and Clark was a former soccer participant at Jap Alamance Excessive College. Clark’s mom, Tiffany Concepcion, instructed NBC affiliate WRAL of Raleigh that the kids had been good pals.
Tim Stelloh contributed.
