Two years after the investigation began into the deaths of two St. Augustine men found shot inside a car, the St. Johns County Sheriff’s Office announced an arrest.

Derrick Walden, 43, was arrested and charged in connection to the double murder of Cody Bennett, 21, and Tre’ Lyons, 22.

Bennett and Lyons were found shot to death inside a vehicle that had crashed into a fence on North Orange Street near Webster Elementary School on Nov. 27, 2023, around 11:30 p.m.

Detectives reviewed surveillance footage that showed someone running from the direction of the scene around the time of the murders.

They also pulled Bennett’s cellphone data and learned that he was communicating with Walden right before the shooting. This, along with other evidence, led them to name Walden as a person of intere

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