ROCKY MOUNT, N.C. — Rocky Mount police said two "toddler-age" children spent hours in the cold in the backseat of a car overnight while two dead bodies were in the front seat. Employees at Barnhill Contracting Co. on Construction Drive in Rocky Mount discovered the bodies around 6 a.m. Thursday when heading into work. Police arrived shortly after, at approximately 6:15 a.m. Officers believe the two people, 24-year-old Destiny Wiggins and 28-year-old Devone Brown, were shot and killed inside the car right outside the business. Neither was a Barnhill employee. The bodies were found inside a Cadillac, according to an employee from the tow company that responded to the scene.
"The children's safety was the biggest thing," said Caleb Braswell of Coastal Wrecker towing. "It is something they will deal with the rest of their lives, especially if that was their parents." The two children found in the car were Wiggins' daughters, her sister told WRAL News. They were not physically injured, but they were transported to UNC Nash Healthcare after being exposed to cold temperatures – lows dropped into the 30s overnight.