Hearing for bunker murders postponed to January
A preliminary hearing was postponed Thursday for three men suspected in the violent shooting death of a teenaged couple following a birthday party at an abandoned military bunker in remote Helendale.
Sheriff's officials say Collin Lee McGlaughlin, 18, of West Covina, David Brian Smith, 20, and Cameron James Thomson, 17, both of Covina, held their victims at gunpoint before shooting them inside the bunker, about 16 miles west of Barstow, on Jan. 5.
The men are scheduled to return Jan. 13 for a pre-preliminary hearing in Barstow Superior Court. If the lawyers announce they are ready for the preliminary hearing, which would determine if sufficient evidence exists to hold the defendants on the charges, it would follow within days.
The defendants are suspected of fatally shooting Christopher Cody Thompson, 18, of Apple Valley and his girlfriend, Bodhisattva Sherzer-Potter, 16, of Helendale.
For more details about the case, read:
Hearing in High Desert bunker murders scheduled for November
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