UPDATE 6/1/17 @ 5:50 p.m.

LAWRENCE COUNTY, Ky. (WSAZ) -- Deputies in Kentucky said while authorities were investigating and cleaning up after a fatal motorcycle crash, the mother of one of the victims and her boyfriend were raiding his home for guns and other items.

Ruth Sparks, 65, and Wendell Gibbs, 67, now face burglary and other charges. Both are from Louisa.

Sparks' son is James “Buddy” Adams.

Adams and Priscilla Hogston were killed Tuesday afternoon on U.S. 23 in Boyd County in a motorcycle crash.

Adams’ house on the Left Fork of Morgans Creek was extra quiet Thursday afternoon, just two days after his death. But deputies said only two hours after the crash, Sparks was there, stealing guns and other items with her boyfriend Gibbs.

Deputies got a 911 call when she allegedly pointed a gun at a teenager inside, who happens to be the son of Hogston.

"It devastates me,” said Austin Castle, who lives next to Sparks in Louisa.

"To hear this, it blows my mind, blows my mind," said Thomas Koch, an acquaintance of Sparks.

Castle has lived next to Sparks for several months and said her son's death Tuesday hit her hard.

"She was really hurt by it,” he said. “I never saw Ruth cry like that day."

Investigators said Hogston's son ran out of the house and met a responding deputy on the road.

It's a story Sheriff Garrett Roberts has never seen before in his 30 years of experience.

According to the citation, a gun and money were found in a hiding place, almost the same time as U.S. 23 was reopening after the crash in Boyd County.

"Something like this, a tragic accident, for a family member to do this to their flesh and blood is terrible," Sheriff Roberts said.

Castle feels terrible, too. Still, he hopes it all blows over because his opinion hasn't changed about his neighbor.

"I will always love Ruth,” he said. “She always been here since she moved in. She's been there for me, and I've been there for her. I will still always be there for her, no matter what."

The family of Adams and Hogston declined to talk to WSAZ Thursday.

But other friends told us they think it's all a misunderstanding because Sparks was not in her right mind because of her grief.

She's bonded out of jail, but Gibbs is still there as of Thursday afternoon.

They both face charges of first-degree burglary. She also faces a charge of wanton endangerment. He faces a charge of possession of a firearm by a convicted felon.

ORIGINAL STORY 6/1/17

LAWRENCE COUNTY, Ky. (WSAZ) -- A man and woman are behind bars after they tried to steal from the house of the woman's son who had died earlier that day in a motorcycle accident.

Wendell Gibbs, 67, of Louisa, is charged with burglary and possession of a firearm by a convicted felon. Ruth Sparks, 65, of Louisa is charged with wanton endangerment and burglary.

Deputies say they responded to home on Left Fork of Morgan's Creek about someone coming into a home and pointing a gun at a juvenile.

Deputies found the two at the home which is where Sparks' son lived who was killed earlier in the day in a motorcycle accident on U.S. 23 near the Marathon Refinery Plant.

During the investigation, deputies discovered Sparks went into the home and pointed a rifle at a juvenile.

The juvenile was able to get out of the home and call 911.

Sparks and Gibbs took multiple items from the home, including firearms.

Deputies asked Sparks where Gibbs and she told them he had left, but then the Gibbs came out of the house.

Sparks told deputies Gibbs had the rifle. He denied having the firearm, but eventually told deputies where it was located.

The two were placed in the Big Sandy Regional Detention Center.