DAVIDSON COUNTY, N.C. — Authorities have charged a pair in connection with the death of 33-year-old Jonathan Charles Shores, who was reported missing on November 11.

Davidson County Sheriff's Office said Jose Guadalupe Lopez, 26, faces first-degree murder, and his girlfriend, Brennan Summer Alexander, 31, is charged as an accessory after the fact. Shores’ body was found in a wooded area in Fairfield County, South Carolina.

Shores’ family reported him missing to the Davie County Sheriff’s Office on Nov. 11 and provided an address in Davidson County tied to his last known whereabouts. Investigators with the Davidson County Sheriff’s Office learned that a shooting had occurred two days earlier, on Nov. 9, at a home on Eastwood Drive in Lexington.

Shooting and Flight from North Carolina

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