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UPDATE: Neighbors worried after two homicides in Chambersburg within two months

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UPDATE:

The Franklin County Coroner's Office has identified Victor Hugo Campos-Olguin, 29 of Chambersburg, as the victim.

Campos-Olguin lived at the home on East King Street where the murder occurred.

The cause of death has been ruled to be a single gunshot wound to the neck from a homicide.

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There have now been two homicides in the last two months in Chambersburg. Both were within about a mile of each other, the latest coming Monday night resulting in a police standoff with a suspect yesterday.

It is easy to find the fear in what is normally thought of as a very peaceful town, for Adrianna Resendiz yesterday afternoon the SERT team was knocking on her door.

Resendiz lives next door to one of the accused murders, "Its kind of scary because I have two kids and were always outside playing front and back."  Their yard just feet away from that of the accused killer. "I had a a problem with him because when we parked in front of his house he would come out and say we couldn't park there, he lived there 28 years. I had the cops come one once and he said that he is a crazy guy." Resendiz said.

Jason Shauf, 38, and Carl Varner, 54, were arrested Tuesday in connection with the homicide.  The SERT team had to respond to get Varner to surrender from his home on East McKinley St. about a mile from the murder scene.

"People are starting to get scared, I've talked to some of the kids around here they are stating to get worried about getting on the bus here, 'cause they get on the bus right at the corner here," said Tamea Carter who lives next door to where the homicide took place.

Varner may have lived at the home with his wife, CBS 21 knocked but no one came to the door.

"Sometimes he would be friendly, he'd be like I have dogs for sale, this and that, I speak Spanish," Resendiz said.

Varner's knowledge of Spanish could be a key in this case. CBS 21 News was there early yesterday morning when the body of the murder victim was taken from the house.

It was up in the second floor of the house on King Street where the murder took place, the two men broke into the house and killed the victim,  Carter said she didn't see or hear anything, but the gentlemen, the Hispanic men who lived in this house were very nice neighbors. "They seemed quiet, kept to themselves went to work just like anybody else."

CBS 21 couldn't speak to the police chief as he was in a day long training session, there is no official motive, but there is speculation. "We've heard that they were selling drugs or something," Carter said.

An autopsy of the victim is was done Wednesday in Allentown.

CBS 21 was able to talk to Mayor Joe Lagiovane he insisted there is not a crime wave in Chambersburg and that Monday's murder and that of Calvin Beam last month were in no way related, he attributed the murders in part to the easy availability of guns.


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