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Police in Wylie, Texas, might have stumbled upon the two 16-year-old boys in the woods at night, allegedly burying their high school classmate’s body.

But the alleged plot that led up to the weekend killing was highly planned and premeditated. And the motive behind it all?

A three-way love triangle in which the victim and one of his alleged assailants were involved with the same girl, authorities here are saying.

According to the Dallas Morning News, police accuse the pair of 16-year-old of choking to death 17-year-old Ivan Mejia. They said the boys put Mejia into a headlock. They then transported the body to a wooded area, where they dumped the remains into a creek.

It was here that the boys were caught, as a police patrol, alerted by a 911 call about a swerving vehicle, spotted the car by the side of the road and investigated.

The officers saw the boys running away. Upon returning to the car, the officers again encountered the boys. The officers asked what they were doing in the woods, and one of the boys responded:

“We are burying a body.”