The Integrated Homicide Investigation Team (IHIT) announced Friday that two counts of second-degree murder and one count of indignity to human remains have been laid against a 27-year-old man in the 2022 homicides of two people found in Burnaby.

Mohammed Arif Ansari has been charged in the murders of 31-year-old Kiesha Garie and 30-year-old Umair Kasim.

Garie and Kasim, both of Coquitlam, were discovered inside a car near École Alpha Secondary School in the area of Alpha Avenue and Venables Street on Oct. 17, 2022. 

The couple had previously been reported missing to Coquitlam RCMP.

IHIT believes this was a targeted homicide, where all three people knew each other.