BLACKSBURG, S.C. (AP) – Authorities say two men from Gastonia, North Carolina, were killed during a drug deal in South Carolina.
York County Coroner Sabrina Gast identified the victims as 35-year-old Aron Young and 43-year-old Jerry Farmer.
The men were found dead in a burning truck on a dirt road late Thursday. Cherokee County Sheriff Steve Mueller says they were shot at a Blacksburg home.
The sheriff says deputies received a tip there had been a shooting at the house and found 45-year-old Donald Creswell Jr. burning carpet and other evidence.
Mueller says Creswell and 33-year-old Steven Parker are charged with murder. It wasn’t known if they had lawyers.
Gast says the bodies of Young and Farmer are being sent to a Charleston pathologist for an autopsy.
