Grandson charged with murdering retired grandparents found dead in their South Carolina home

Authorities successful upstate South Carolina person arrested the 19-year-old grandson of a retired mates recovered slain successful their location earlier this month, charging him with 2 counts of execution successful a lawsuit that has shaken a tiny agrarian community.

The Oconee County Sheriff’s Office said Levi Kevin Jones was taken into custody precocious Friday and charged successful transportation with the deaths of Larry Moore, 76, and Sandra Moore, 75, who were discovered wrong their residence connected Cromer Moore Road adjacent Westminster connected Jan. 15.

Jones is besides charged with 2 counts of possession of a limb during the committee of a convulsive crime, according to apprehension warrants obtained by Fox News Digital. He remains successful custody pending a enslaved hearing.

The mates was recovered aft a household subordinate requested a payment cheque erstwhile repeated attempts to scope them were unsuccessful. Investigators and the region coroner aboriginal determined the deaths were homicides.

RETIRED SOUTH CAROLINA COUPLE FOUND DEAD IN HOMICIDE AT HOME

Larry and Sandra Moore are pictured during a religion gathering astatine Calvary Church. The mates was aboriginal remembered by the congregation pursuing their deaths. (Calvary Church Facebook)

According to the Oconee County Coroner's Office, Larry Moore died from aggregate stabbing injuries, portion Sandra Moore died from manual strangulation. Autopsies were conducted the pursuing day.

Arrest warrants allege Jones stabbed his gramps aggregate times successful the torso and cervix and strangled his grandmother, cutting disconnected her airway and humor flow. Authorities said a weapon was utilized during the attack.

Authorities person not provided a motive for the attack.

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The Oconee County Sheriff's Office said the couple's grandson, Levi Kevin Jones, is charged with 2 counts of execution successful the case, arsenic good arsenic 2 counts of possession of a limb during the committee of a convulsive crime. (Oconee County Sheriff's Office)

The Moores were longtime residents of the country and good known successful the assemblage arsenic the erstwhile owners of Moore & Moore Fish Camp, a section edifice that operated for decades earlier the mates retired.

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They were besides progressive members of Calvary Church, wherever friends described them arsenic regular attendees.

"They were ever there," Stacy Brooks, who attended church, told Fox News Digital. "You expected to spot them each clip you went. They were faithful people."

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The Oconee County Coroner’s Office, which assisted successful the probe into the deaths of Larry and Sandra Moore, is shown successful an exterior view. (Oconee County Coroner's Office)

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Brooks said the killings person been hard for residents of the tiny upstate South Carolina municipality to process.

"This is simply a adjacent community, and thing similar this conscionable doesn’t hap often," she said.

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The sheriff’s bureau antecedently said the killings appeared to beryllium an isolated incidental and that determination was nary ongoing menace to the public.