St. Joseph County Metro Homicide is handling its first double murder in more than five years.

The news comes two weeks to the day of a brazen home-invasion that left two teenagers shot in the 1100-block of N. Adams Street on South Bend's Northwest side.

Alejandro Tinoco, 19, died from a gunshot wound to the head less than 24 hours later. However his girlfriend, Jazmin Conlee, 19, fought to stay alive until her family took her off life support early Wednesday morning.

Following an autopsy, the St. Joseph County Coroner’s Office ruled Conlee’s death a homicide, the culprit being multiple gunshot wounds to her body.

The St. Joseph County Prosecutor’s Office is now expected to file more charges against Jermon Gavin, 26, and Charles Moore, 21, (pictured above), the duo alleged responsible for the killings.

"I just don't understand how someone's life can just get taken like this for no reason like whatsoever,” Conlee and Tinoco’s longtime friend Pat Kowaleski said.

St. Joseph County hasn't seen a murder with more than one victim since Jan. 2007, when South Bend police found the bodies of four homeless men stashed in manholes across the city.

Re-wind seven more years to Sept. 2000 when Phillip Stroud and a handful of accomplices brutally executed three construction workers inside a Lakeville Barn.

Two years prior in Sept. 1998, Wayne Kubsch shot, stabbed and killed his wife, her ex-husband and their 11-year-old son inside a Mishawaka home.

In total, four brutal crimes spanning 14 years, leaving a wake of sadness for all parties involved.

"If I saw a picture of Jazmin today I’d probably just cry because she always just had the best smile. It just puts life into perspective, anything could happen at any given moment and we just need to cherish everyday that we have on this earth,” Kowaleski concluded.

Loved ones say they’ll remember Conlee as a girl with true compassion for her friends. Funeral arrangements are currently in the works, with the hope of holding a service Sunday, when the former Clay High School student would have turned 20-years-old.

A vigil for Tinoco and Conlee is scheduled for Thursday Feb. 9 at 5:30 p.m., at the corner of Adams and Vassar streets in South Bend. It's being organized by On-Site Prayer Ministries.