Temple Police released the names Friday of the victims killed in a double homicide Wednesday night.
Cody Glenn Cornell, 25 and Robert Joseph Pellerin III, 35, were employees at O'Reilly Auto Parts where they were both found dead, according to police. Their autopsies will be performed at Southwestern Institute of Forensic Science in Dallas.
Police also confirmed Friday that the suspect, Theodore Sims, 47, was a former employee at O’Reilly Auto Parts.
Temple Police said Sims was captured by the Harker Heights Police Department Thursday afternoon and has since been transferred to their custody.
"We would like to extend our sincerest gratitude to the Belton Police Department, Harker Heights Police Department, Texas Rangers, and U.S. Marshalls, as well as to the public, for their assistance today," TPD Spokesperson Ellen Morton said in an email. "This case would not have yielded such quick results without your partnership."
Sims is accused of being involved in both Wednesday night's double homicide at the O'Reilly Auto Parts in Temple and an aggravated assault that happened the same day at the NAPA Auto Parks on E 6th Avenue in Belton, according to law enforcement.
Cornell and Pellerin were found dead inside the O’Reilly Auto Parts store, located at 1720 SW H K Dodgen Loop in Temple, around 11:34 p.m. Wednesday. It was not immediately clear how they had been killed. Temple Police detectives and the Texas Rangers are investigating.
Sims was booked into the Bell County Jail.