US Army soldier and his Ukrainian refugee girlfriend were gunned down by her ex-boyfriend on Valentine's Day: Police

A North Carolina antheral who constabulary said fled the authorities aft fatally shooting his ex-girlfriend and her caller fellow connected Valentine's Day was arrested much than 400 miles away.

Caleb Fosnaugh, 25, was identified by the Moore County Sheriff's Office arsenic the fishy successful a treble homicide successful Vass, a municipality astir 60 miles southwest of Raleigh, connected Saturday. According to a bid of Facebook posts astir the case, constabulary said they responded to reports of a shooting astatine a location astatine 7:45 a.m. When deputies arrived, they discovered the bodies of 28-year-old Matthew Wade and 21-year-old Katya Tovmash. The aforesaid day, Fosnaugh was named arsenic the suspect.

Fosnaugh was tracked down aboriginal the aforesaid time and taken into custody successful Ohio. Police confirmed that helium and Tovmash used to beryllium successful a relationship while they some lived successful Ohio.

After Fosnaugh's arrest, constabulary released the names of the victims. According to constabulary and Wade's family, helium was an active-duty worker successful the U.S. Army and stationed astatine Fort Bragg. His relationship with Tovmash, a Ukrainian refugee, was conscionable beginning, and helium lived with her successful her location successful Vass, according to reporting by section NBC affiliate WRAL.

The Charlotte Observer reported that Tovmash was besides surviving with and raising immoderate of her younger siblings aft her household fled from Ukraine 2 years ago. The sheriff's bureau did not corroborate family accounts that immoderate of those siblings were successful the location astatine the clip of the shooting.

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A person of Tovmash's household started a GoFundMe leafage to rise wealth for her funeral.

Fosnaugh remains successful the custody of the Coshocton County Sheriff's Office successful Ohio. He is expected to beryllium extradited to Moore County to look charges for 2 counts of execution and 1 number of breaking and entering.