Utah Couple Arrested In Carjacking, Double Murder

(NewsCore) - US Marshals arrested a Utah couple Tuesday in connection with a two-state crime spree that included a violent carjacking and a burglary that left two dead.

Logan McFarland, 24, and Angela Atwood, 25, were arrested without incident at about 1:20pm local time after being spotted walking in the Nevada desert near the Utah border, the Salt Lake Tribune reported.

The two are suspected in the fatal shootings of Leroy and Dorotha Fullwood, 70 and 69, who were found dead in their own home on New Year's Eve in the small Utah town of Mount Pleasant, about 100 miles (160km) south of Salt Lake City.

Police said the Fullwoods' home, which was ransacked, seemed to be a random burglary target.

After the fatal home invasion, McFarland and Atwood allegedly stole a car and drove it to West Wendover -- just west of the Utah-Nevada border -- where they tried to exchange their vehicle with a 35-year-old local woman in a casino parking lot early Saturday.

Atwood allegedly forced her way into the woman's car, but the victim, Rattana Lirange, fought back, biting the carjacker's neck and ear and eventually pushing her out of her vehicle, the Tribune reported.

As Lirange tried to drive away, Atwood allegedly fired a shot at the car that hit the woman in the head.

Lirange, who was in a Salt Lake City hospital, was expected to make a full recovery, West Wendover police Sgt. David Wiskerchen told the Tribune Monday.

Police later found her car abandoned in Wells, Nev., where the fugitive couple allegedly stole a Volkswagen Jetta and managed to elude troopers after a high-speed chase. A credit card receipt that belonged to the Fullwoods was found in the first car, authorities said.

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