RCMP have charged a 19-year-old man from Whitefish Lake First Nation with murder in connection with the killings of Dylan Laboucan and Cory Grey.
Edward Devin Boyce Gladue faces two counts of second-degree murder, RCMP said in a news release Friday.
Police don’t think the killings were a random act.
High school sweethearts Laboucan, 17, and Grey, 19, were weeks away from moving away to attend college when they went missing at the end of July from the trailer where they lived with his parents.
Days later, their bullet-riddled bodies were found, his on one well-site and hers on another a few kilometres away.
Gladue was arrested in Peace River on Thursday without incident.
An intensive investigation lasting nearly two weeks had involved the use of specialized units within the RCMP as well as members from the High Prairie RCMP detachment, police said.
Police don’t believe there are any other suspects involved.
Gladue is scheduled to appear in provincial court in High Prairie, Alta., on Monday.
RCMP said they won’t be providing any other details or comments on the case.