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In that case, he is accused of firing at a vehicle on Nov. 22. Goldman was arrested last week after being on the run for nearly two months and was appearing before state District Judge Charles Brown.

“The bottom line is, they think he killed two other people with the same weapon they found casings from. Is that right?” Brown asked as he looked over the case filings.

Prosecutor Natalie Strub told Brown he was correct.

During a back-and-forth exchange with Brown, she confirmed that the boys died from gunshot wounds, but she said she didn’t want to proceed with the detention hearing until the primary detective is available to take the witness stand.

“There is a lot of other details, especially in terms of the autopsy,” Strub said of the teens’ deaths. “It shows evidence of torture and more of a violent conduct of the defendant.”

The detective is expected to testify on Goldman’s alleged involvement in the teens’ slayings and provide details on the “extensive investigation” which Strub said identified at least two other suspects in the double homicide.

In light of Strub’s argument, Brown reset the hearing for Friday morning and Goldman will remain behind bars until then.

In late December, the bodies of Lateef and Romero were found in shallow graves on a mesa west of Rio Rancho by a cadaver dog and Sandoval County Sheriff’s Office deputies. The boys had been missing for nearly two weeks.

They were last seen in a neighborhood in Albuquerque’s foothills on Dec. 16 and police say the boys could have been involved in a “drug deal that may have gone bad.” Shortly after they disappeared, a video on the Snapchat messaging app surfaced of the pair being beaten and bleeding on a mesa.

Anthony Loy Aragon, 36, has been charged with two counts of tampering with evidence in connection with the boys’ burial. Aragon is currently behind bars in Nevada on armed robbery charges.

Goldman, also known as “Calypso,” is already facing a slew of charges, including shooting at or from a motor vehicle, armed robbery and aggravated assault with a deadly weapon in two unrelated shootings that happened in November.

According to court records, the first incident happened in the early hours of Nov. 3 at a house party near Constitution and Wyoming NE.

Two boys at the party told police Goldman and several other men forced them into a backyard at gunpoint and robbed them. During the robbery, Goldman allegedly fired several shots at one of the boys, who ran away and escaped uninjured. He was not charged in that case until after he was arrested in connection to the drive-by shooting that occurred nearly three weeks later.

On Nov. 22, police say Goldman was in the passenger seat of a car when he fired at another vehicle on San Mateo NE, near Comanche. When a detective tracked down the man who was driving Goldman, he told police he didn’t know Goldman had a weapon before the shooting started and that Goldman was “a sociopath” who “preys on kids who are afraid of him.”