A third teen has been arrested and charged in connection with January’s execution-style slayings of a young couple at an abandoned High Desert military bunker, officials said.

Cameron Thomson, 16, of Covina, was taken into custody at his home Wednesday and is being held without bail at juvenile hall pending arraignment today. Like 19-year-old David Brian Smith and 18-year-old Collin Lee McGlaughlin, who were arrested in January, Thomson is charged with two counts each of murder, kidnapping and attempted robbery.

San Bernardino County sheriff’s detectives have alleged that Thomson operated as the lookout on Jan. 5, when they say McGlaughlin and Smith ordered 18-year-old Christopher Cody Thomson and his girlfriend, 16-year-old Bodhisattva Sherzer-Potter out of their car and into the bunker in Helendale.

The victims had attended a birthday party there the night before and were found shot to death the next afternoon. Detectives have said that the suspects targeted Thomson and Potter for a robbery because they were the last partiers at the bunker that night, but shot them without taking any property.

—Paul LaRocco
plarocco@PE.com

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