Two high school students, Evan Clark and Pandora Kjolsrud, were fatally shot while camping on Mount Ord on May 25. The motive remains unknown. The suspect, Thomas Brown, pleaded not guilty at Friday’s Maricopa Superior Court hearing.
Brown, a retired military member from Minnesota who resides in Chandler, is being charged with two counts of first-degree murder. His bail is set at $2 million cash.
Captain David Lee of the Maricopa County Sheriff’s Office Major Crimes Division said, “They were, as far as we know, complete strangers,” during a MCSO news conference on Oct. 3…