The Orange County Sheriff’s Office said two bodies found Sunday match the description of 14-year-old Lyric Woods and 18-year-old Devin Clark, although the medical examiner has yet to provide full confirmation. “While we do not yet have that confirmation, in the absence of other missing persons matching the descriptions of the individuals located, the tragic but logical conclusion is increasingly clear,” Sheriff Charles Blackwood said in a statement late Monday. Family members confirmed that the bodies belong to the two teenagers, according to ABC 11, which reported that relatives were at the crime scene Monday morning. Woods, a ninth-grader at Cedar Ridge Middle School in Hillsborough, was reported missing Saturday after her family woke up to find she wasn’t home and the back door was unlocked, the Charlotte Observer reported. Clark, a senior at Eastern Alamance High School in Mebane, was reported missing Sunday after not being seen since Friday night. Both families had appealed for information on their whereabouts while search efforts began, but the case took a tragic turn Sunday afternoon when men on ATVs discovered two bodies near an electrical office about two and a half miles from his home. Woods. Investigators said the two victims appeared to have been shot. While police said Clark and Woods appeared to know each other, the circumstances of their disappearance and the moments leading up to their deaths remain a mystery. Investigators have not yet named any suspects. A missing person’s report cited by WRAL said ninth-grader Woods was spotted by a neighbor riding in a vehicle in the early hours of Saturday morning, and sniffer dogs picked up her scent in a wooded area where locals often ride four-wheelers. Clark’s mother, Tiffany Concepcion, was quoted by the news outlet as saying she believes a third person the teenagers met may be involved in their deaths. “Who is strong enough to carry two bodies and throw them away? We want answers,” he said. David White, a man who lives near the area where the bodies were found, told ABC 11 he heard “about 10 shots” from what sounded like an “automatic weapon” a few days ago. After pausing for a second, he said, “five more shots.” “I thought, ‘Who’s shooting so late at night?’ The two teenagers were honored late Monday with a minute’s silence at a football game between their respective schools. “This past weekend, Devin Clark, an Eastern Alamance student, and Lyric Woods, a Cedar Ridge student, tragically lost their lives,” the announcer said, according to ABC 11. “Please keep their families in your thoughts. and your prayers.” Clark was also honored with a balloon release at his high school’s football field, where his aunt, Crystal Hughes, said the family is struggling to understand what happened. “It’s hard for us to process everything that’s going on because we don’t have details,” Hughes was quoted as saying. “And really, our lack of information doesn’t match up with the things we’re hearing and all the different sides of the story that we know, hopefully the police department’s investigation goes the way it’s supposed to.”
