(Post Staff and AP) Charges have been upgraded against two suspects in connection with the fatal shootings of two people on Safari Drive in St. Joseph in 2016.

Omar Martinez-Velez and Luis Omar Robles-Vargas now each face two felony counts of first-degree murder and two counts of armed criminal action.

As previously reported, they initially were charged with second-degree murder in the July 2016 shooting deaths of 22-year-old Kevilee (Kevin) Villegas-Melendez and 25-year-old Raymond Gonzalez Ortiz.