Teen pleads not guilty in killing
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A 16-year-old boy pleaded not guilty to murder Friday for his alleged role in the killing of a teenage couple shot in an abandoned military bunker in the Mojave Desert.
The boy was arrested late Wednesday in Covina, becoming the third suspect in the case. He was charged with two counts of murder, said San Bernardino County Deputy Dist. Atty. Steven Sinfield.
Authorities believe the boy served as a lookout during the Jan. 5 killings of Christopher Cody Thompson, 18, and his girlfriend, Bodhisattva “Bodhi” Sherzer-Potter, 16.
Collin Lee McGlaughlin, 18, of West Covina and David Brian Smith, 19, of Covina both pleaded not guilty to murder in January. They also were in the Barstow courtroom Friday, but had their preliminary hearing continued to June 6.
The bunker on a defunct military installation became a graffiti-scarred hangout for youths after it was abandoned in the mid-1980s. Authorities have shut it down since the killings.
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