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According to Coroner Bill Salisbury, North Charleston taxi cab driver Carlas Anderson, 46, who had his name legally changed to Guma Dubar, was exhumed and found with with gunshot wounds to the head and torso. His death has been ruled a homicide.Dubar was out on bond in connection with a 2015 drive-by shooting that left one man injured.A second victims was found at the scene. The coroner said the probable cause of death for thesecond victim, whohas yet to be identified, is a gunshot wound to the head.Both bodies were unrecognizable due to burns over 100 percent of their bodies, the coroner said.Investigators attended the autopsies Monday morning.Salisbury was at the scene on Pandora Drive with the Berkeley County Rescue Squad Monday. He said they were using the squad's drone to take aerial shots of the property, including the back yard where the two bodies were found in a shallow grave.Goose Creek police are interviewing witnesses and following leads on the deaths, according to Goose Creek Assistant Chief of Police Maj. John Grainger.Grainger said there are no 911 calls logged in the case and officers in his department are not equipped with body cameras. Grainger declined to discuss the activities of the suspect, James Edwards Loftis, prior to his arrest, citing concern that doing so could jeopardize the investigation.Loftis, who is charged with two counts of murder, was denied bond Sunday by a magistrate judge because only a circuit court judge can set bond on a murder charge. A bond hearing with a circuit judge will be scheduled at a later date.Officers responded to a home on South Pandora Drive around 10:15 p.m. Saturday after Loftis's wife reported her husband was suicidal and claimed to have killed two people and buried them in the back yard while she was out of town, Grainger said.The Berkeley County Coroner's Office was called in to investigate after two bodies were located.According to a police affidavit, Loftis told police he took a cab home early Saturday morning from a night club. He got out of the cab and went inside his home. In a statement to police, Loftis said the cab driver and another person knocked on his door demanding the cab fare.Loftis said they pushed their way into his home. Loftis said he then used a fun to fire eight shots, killing them both.Investigators said Loftis's wife showed responding officers a bullet hole she located in the living room wall. Officers then discovered a "disturbed area of dirt" in the back yard.Loftis voluntarily agreed to provide a statement at the Goose Creek Police Department, court documents state.Loftis told police he moved the cab to Old Back River Road and walked back home.On the way back, he said, he stopped at a gas station on Red Bank Road and bought five gallons of gas, returned to his home and cleaned the home with bleach, then burned his clothing and towels used to clean up the home along with the bodies of the victims.Family members of the cab driver were at the bond hearing Sunday night.They had a message for Loftis and words of forgiveness."I just want to say I forgive you and I suggest that you tell your other cohorts, because I know it wasn't just you," a daughter of one of the victims said at the bond hearing.Grainger said Monday it is too early in the investigation to determine if others might be involved.The cab in police custody is registered to Global Mobile TS, Grainger said. The vehicle was seized for forensic investigation.Copyright 2016 WCSC. All rights reserved.