Updated at 7:21 p.m.
A man arrested last week in South Burlington who was described as a “person of interest” in the fatal shootings in New Hampshire of a former Vermont couple is now facing murder charges in their deaths.
The New Hampshire Attorney General’s Office announced in a press release Wednesday evening that an arrest warrant had been issued for Logan Clegg.
The warrant, according to the release, details two counts against Clegg of second-degree murder in the deaths in April of Stephen and Djeswende “Wendy” Reid. The couple was fatally shot in April on a walking trail near their home in New Hampshire’s capital city of Concord.
The Reids had previously lived and worked in Chittenden County.
Clegg is expected to appear for a hearing Thursday in Franklin County Superior criminal court in St. Albans as New Hampshire authorities seek his extradition to face the murder charges, according to the release.
The charges against Clegg accuse him of “knowingly causing the deaths” of the Reids “by shooting them multiple times” on April 18, the release showed.
Once the warrant was issued Wednesday, it was given to Vermont authorities who used it to arrest Clegg on a charge of being a fugitive from justice on the murder charges, the New Hampshire Attorney General’s Office indicated.
Clegg, who authorities said has no fixed address, was taken into custody last week as he sat in the South Burlington Public Library. Authorities said Clegg had a one-way ticket booked for a flight to Berlin, Germany, that was departing the following day.
He was arrested on a separate fugitive from justice charge stemming from a burglary and possession of stolen property case against him in Utah, unrelated to the homicide probe in New Hampshire.
Clegg had been incarcerated since his arrest in Vermont on Oct. 12 and is being held at the Northwest State Correctional Facility in St. Albans.
Attempts to reach the New Hampshire Attorney General’s Office on Wednesday evening for additional comment were not successful.
Clegg, through his attorneys, had sought this week to appeal an earlier order holding him without bail following his arrest last week in Vermont.
However, the Vermont Supreme Court dismissed that appeal Tuesday and ruled the state could continue to hold Clegg without bail as a fugitive from justice from Utah, where he is wanted for a probation violation related to the burglary case.
