A Columbus man has been arrested and is facing Capital Murder charges stemming from a double murder in rural northwestern Cherokee County.

Early Sunday morning, Cherokee County Sheriff Deputies were dispatched to a location where the bodies of 27-year-old Blaze Swank and 20-year-old Kylan Shook were discovered. Both victims had been shot.

Cherokee County detectives, along with agents from the Kansas Bureau of Investigation, issued an arrest warrant for Mark Gerald Hopkins II charging him with Capital Murder after conducting numerous interviews and serving search warrants through out the day Sunday.

Hopkins was located near Fairland, Oklahoma early Monday morning and taken into custody. Hopkins is being held in the Ottawa County Oklahoma Jail, pending extradition back to Kansas.