KING GEORGE COUNTY, Va. (WRIC) — Court documents have revealed gruesome details in the murder of missing Virginia teen Megan Lorraine Metzger. 

On Nov. 19, David W. Newton was charged with murder. 

Keelyn R. Codynah, Robert P. Keating have each been charged with one count of accessory to murder. Juan Benavidez II was charged with a felony count of arson of a vehicle.

According to the court documents, 19-year-old Metzger was shot at Keating’s home, located on Post Oak Drive in Spotsylvania. Codynah then helped remove Metzger’s body from the home, court documents say, and cleaned blood from the crime scene.

Court documents show that Keating took the firearm used in the homicide and disposed of it in Washington, D.C. 

On Saturday, human remains were found in the Fairview Beach community, the same location where Benavidez lived with his mother. State Police say the human remains are being investigated in connection to Metzger’s case. 

8News spoke with neighbors who were in shock after learning a human body was found just a few streets over. 

“It’s just unbelievable that people can do that to other people,” said Fairview Beach resident Sandy Kornegay. “It’s all like a family community. It’s only like 11 streets. Everybody knows everybody.”

Kornegay told 8News her family knew Benavidez when he was younger. 

“He was a good kid,” she said. “They say he wasn’t troubled or nothing like that.” 

According to State Police, Benavidez is an acquaintance of Metzger, who was last heard from on Tuesday, July 17. 

Benavidez-Littles family, shared a statement with 8News:

“He is from Fairview Beach, Virginia. He is a good-hearted, funny, charismatic young father who got involved in the wrong crowd (drug users). He wants it to be known that he did not kill Megan. He was at the party that the incident occurred thereafter that he attended with a friend of his. He says he didn’t know Megan well but that she was connected to another person at the party. He watched her be shot by another person at the party, at which time he was instructed that he would “do as he was told” in the events which unfolded after. He was told if he didn’t cooperate, he and his family would be killed also. After witnessing such a gruesome act already occur, he was legitimately scared for his life but most importantly the lives of his family. When we told him of reports coming out that Robert Keating was the shooter, he said that those were false. He can’t confirm who the killer is as instructed by law enforcement. He just said, “I am innocent, I was there and my life and my family was threatened, I had to do what I was told. We are praying for the Metzger family and our biggest hope is justice for them in this incredibly tragic time.”

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State Police say that just before 11 a.m. on July 19, King George County Sheriff’s Office alerted the Westmoreland County Sheriff’s Office to be on the lookout for a suspect vehicle allegedly headed to Westmoreland County, possibly on Route 3. 

The suspect vehicle, a white 2004 Mazda 4-door sedan, was located a short time later on Leedstown Road near Twilford. Police say the vehicle had been set fire and was destroyed.

Police say the burned vehicle is registered to Metzger.

The Westmoreland County Sheriff’s Office, with the assistance of the Virginia State Police, then began working to locate Metzger, of Pamplin City, and issued a Critically Missing Adult Alert.

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