(Weatherford, Tx) – Parker County Sheriff’s investigators conducted a search warrant Monday morning at a home on North Farm-to-Market Road 52, in Whitt, in connection with two men found murdered April 11, at an abandoned schoolhouse across the street.

While conducting the search warrant, sheriff’s investigators seized numerous electronic devices, firearms, money and over 4,000 pills believed to be Oxycodone and fentanyl.    According to the Weatherford Democrat, the property owner, identified as 43-year-old Jerome Thomas Watkins, was reportedly in the process of purchasing the abandoned schoolhouse located across the street from his house, where the two victims were found shot to death.  Watkins was taken into custody on drug charges.

Sheriff’s deputies also discovered 11 dogs being kept in a cruel conditions. The owner surrendered the dogs to the Weatherford Parker County Animal Shelter.

The Parker County Sheriff’s Office says the investigation into the murders is still ongoing.