Officials: Remains of missing Raleigh man, additional human remains found

Officials on Tuesday said through investigative means, detectives located the remains of Brendan Hurley, 23. Officials told WRAL his body was found in Johnston County on Saturday. Additional human remains were discovered in Nash County and transported to the Medical Examiner's office for further analysis, including testing required to positively identify them.

Officials did not say whether those remains were of Anthony James McCall, 21, who has also been missing since Tuesday.

This comes one day after two men appeared in court Monday on charges that they killed two other men last week, the families of the victims continued to search for their bodies.

James Dai'Shawn Robinson, 21, of Terrace Park Court in Raleigh, and Ryan Craig Veach, 19, of Wapello Lane in Raleigh, are each charged with two counts of murder. Both remain in the Wake County jail without bond.

McCall told family members that Hurley was giving him a ride to McCall's mother's house to let her dog out. Hurley was then supposed to pick his own mother up from work, but he never showed up.

Hurley's Dodge Charger was found Wednesday morning abandoned near a construction debris recycling plant on Raleigh View Drive, off Garner Road in south Raleigh, police said. Family members said blood was on the passenger’s seat.

"He deserved a full life, but if he doesn’t get that, he deserves to rest," Katelin Brown said of McCall. "He deserves so much more than this."

Police haven't disclosed why they believe the two men are dead, a possible motive for the killings or details about what linked Robinson and Veach to the crimes.

"I’d like to know where my son is," Laura Hurley said Monday. "That’d be nice."

Laura Hurley said she had never seen Robinson or Veach before seeing them in a Wake County courtroom on Monday.

"Whatever happened, was it worth somebody’s life?" she asked. "Not only did you take their lives, you just took yours."

Andrew Francis Carroll, 16, of Pennsylvania Court in Raleigh, is charged with being an accessory after the fact of murder in the case. According to an arrest warrant, he drove Hurley's car from Zebulon to a scrap metal recycling center on Garner Road to be junked.

Laura Hurley said she believes McCall and her son were simply in the wrong place at the wrong time, calling both men good people.

"Brendan and Anthony were like brothers. They’re goofballs. They play video games," she said. "My son worked hard. He had his own home, took care of his own car, supported his daughter."

She said Brown is now like family to her.

"We’re no longer Anthony and Brendan – it’s not individual. It’s us. We’re a team," she said.