WASHINGTON — There have been indictments in the June murders of two Montgomery County high school students who were fatally shot in Montgomery Village, Maryland, hours before they were set to graduate.
The bodies of Northwest High School students Shadi Adi Najjar, 17, and Artem Ziberov, 18, were found inside a Honda Civic in the 8200 block of Gallery Court in Montgomery Village, Maryland, on June 5. They were killed hours before graduation.
Court records show 25-year-old Jose Canales Yanez, of Gaithersburg, was indicted on seven counts, including first-degree murder. Indictments also were handed up against Roger Garcia, 19, of Germantown, and Edgar Garcia Gaona, 24, of Gaithersburg, according to Ramon Korionoff, spokesman for the Montgomery County State’s Attorney’s Office.
Gaona faces eight counts, including being a felon in possession of a firearm.
The three men were arrested last month.
Prosecutors say the three men lured Najjar and Ziberov to a neighborhood in Montgomery Village on the pretext that they wanted to buy graduation tickets.
WTOP’s Sarah Beth Hensley contributed to this report.
