BRUNSWICK COUNTY, N.C. — Two people were arrested and charged with murder in the deaths of two men found dead last month in a North Carolina cemetery, including a 17-year-old in Charlotte, investigators announced Monday.
Northwest Police asked the North Carolina State Bureau of Investigation for assistance on March 6 after the bodies of Demetrius Gibbs, 29, and Desmond Radford-Lee, 22, were found with gunshot wounds in a cemetery in Northwest, the bureau said in a news release.
SBI agents arrested 20-year-old Christopher Owen Brooks from Leland in Greensboro on Friday with assistance from the Greensboro Police Department, officials said. Agents also arrested a 17-year-old boy in Charlotte with assistance from the Charlotte-Mecklenburg Police Department.
They have been charged with two counts of first-degree murder and one count of firing into an occupied vehicle inflicting serious injury.
We have reached out to CMPD for more details on the arrest and suspect.
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