TEMPLE, Texas (AP) - Police in Central Texas say two men found slain this week at an auto parts store worked there and the suspect in their deaths was a former employee.
Temple police on Friday identified the victims as 25-year-old Cody Glenn Cornell and 35-year-old Robert Joseph Pellerin III. Their bodies were found Wednesday night at an O’Reilly Auto Parts store. The suspect, 47-year-old Theodore Sims, was arrested Thursday.
Police say they will release the victims’ causes of death following autopsies.
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Sims was charged with aggravated assault relating to a Wednesday incident at a NAPA Auto Parts store in nearby Belton. Temple police spokeswoman Ellen Morton said a charge related to the slayings is pending.
Sims was in Bell County Jail on Friday on $500,000 bond. Jail records show no attorney for him.
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