A 17-year-old suspect has been arrested greater than two weeks after two youngsters have been discovered shot lifeless by the aspect of a highway in North Carolina, a sheriff introduced Wednesday. The arrest comes after a juvenile petition was filed towards the suspect for 2 counts of first-degree homicide within the deaths of 18-year-old Devin Clark and 14-year-old Lyric Woods.
In a Fb put up, Orange County Sheriff Charles Blackwood mentioned the suspect's identify couldn't be launched and no particulars surrounding the arrest could possibly be revealed due to North Carolina's juvenile safety legal guidelines.
"We hope this apprehension supplies some reduction to the households and mates of Devin and Lyric, who've skilled an excruciating loss," Blackwood mentioned. "Clearly, the seize of the suspect doesn't restore their beloved one to them. The grieving course of is a protracted one, and we hope the group will proceed to assist them of their ache."
The our bodies of Clark and Woods have been found final month by two males who have been using ATVs, and days later, the sheriff's workplace launched 911 calls associated to the case.
"We truly found two lifeless our bodies," the caller mentioned Sept. 18, based on audio launched to CBS affiliate WNCN-TV by the Orange County Sheriff's Workplace. "There's an entry the place the facility firm highway ends. They're simply laying on the aspect of the highway."
The calls led police to the place they discovered the our bodies round 3 p.m. that day, the station reported.
"I need justice for Devin and Lyric, not simply my little one," Devin's mother, Tiffany Concepcion, advised WNCN. "There is no purpose these harmless youngsters have been taken…I do not care if the suspect sits and says to my face a purpose why."