Residents shaken after double homicide in Chipman, N.B. [Video]

Residents of Chipman, N.B., are expressing their shock after the bodies of two people were found inside a burning vehicle in the community this week.

Police say investigators are treating the deaths as a double-homicide.

“It shouldn’t happen. It just shouldn’t happen,” said local resident Gerald Richard, who drove by the crime scene Thursday afternoon. “It’s devastating, really.”

Richard says something like this hasn’t happened in the small rural community before.

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“Not like this. There’s been shootings before in our community, but not like this,” he said. 

The RCMP responded to the scene off Midland Road around 8 a.m. Monday morning. When officers arrived, they found two bodies inside a white Chevrolet Equinox “that had been consumed by fire,” according to a news release.

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