A 17-year-old male who confessed to shooting and killing his father and stepmother in the family’s mobile home in the Shamrock Shores area near Lake Brownwood has been charged with capital murder.

Cody Michael Flores was booked Saturday into the Brown County Jail on one charge of capital murder of multiple persons, jail records state. Bond had not been set as of Saturday night.

Sheriff’s deputies were notified of the shooting at 2:30 a.m. Saturday, Sheriff George Caldwell said. The mobile home is on County Road 551 near Corina’s Restaurant and near the junction of the county road and Highway 279.

The victims were shot in their beds, apparently while they were sleeping, Caldwell said.

Caldwell had not released the names of the victims as of Saturday night, saying sheriff’s officials were trying to get other family members notified.

The suspect called authorities and claimed “a stranger came in and shot them,” Caldwell said. The suspect was detained at the scene because “his story was kind of weak” and arrested later, he said.

Sheriff’s investigators recovered the murder weapon, but Caldwell declined to comment on the type of gun or how many times the victims were shot.

“They were in bed,” Caldwell said. “He evidently shot them in their sleep, it looks like.”

Late Saturday morning, there was no sign that anything had happened in the 80-by-14-foot mobile home. The mobile home sits on a small lot in a quiet, secluded area near the corner of County Road 551 and Limerick Drive, and there was no sign of sheriff’s investigators or crime scene tape.

A few residents of the area stopped at a row of nearby mailboxes to pick up mail, saying they didn’t know anything about the people who lived in the mobile home — and expressing surprise at what happened.

Landlord Craig Smith, who owns the mobile home where the murders occurred and rented it to the family, drove up and and spoke with the media. Smith said four people lived there: the man and woman who were murdered, the suspect and an older male who was at work when the shootings happened.

Smith said the woman began renting the mobile home about 10 months ago, and her husband began living there later. Smith did not know why the husband did not initially live there.

The tenants were good renters with whom he had no issues, Smith said, and he was unaware of any family issues. Smith said, though, he’d spoken with the suspect a few times and “he would look at you with a far-off look.

“He acted lethargic, and to me, the two or three times I talked to him, it seemed like he was on some kind of medication. He was real quiet. He never said anything to me unless I said something to him. He seemed like a loner to me.

“I was surprised that he went to school because I saw him many a time and he wasn’t in school, and I was surprised when they said they found a report card from school.”

Smith said the mobile home is in the Bangs school district.

“He kept to himself,” Smith said. “Very seldom did I see him outside.”

Smith said he owns adjacent property and he’d sometime see the suspect while Smith was outside mowing or spraying. “He’d walk out and walk back in,” Smith said.

Smith described the suspect’s appearance as “thin” but said he “seemed clean. They all seemed clean. They dressed good, their hair looked good.”