VIDALIA &045; A Concordia Parish grand jury returned second-degree murder indictments Wednesday for two men suspected in the killing of Vidalia man Richard Allen Cupstid.

Jason L. Short, 30, and Francis Joseph Loncar, 35, will both face a mandatory life sentence if convicted, Assistant District Attorney Brad Burget said.

Cupstid was found shot once in the head on April 5 at the intersection of U.S. 84 on Rountree Road on the outskirts of Vidalia. He has also been run over by a car, investigators said.

He died a day later at a Jackson hospital.

Short was taken into custody by the Concordia Parish Sheriff’s Office shortly after the incident on another charge, the murder charge was added soon after.

Loncar wasn’t found until the following weekend in Escambia County, Florida.

He was arrested in a Pensacola, Fla., motel room by the Escambia County SWAT team.

At the time of the arrest Short listed a Vidalia address and Loncar listed a Natchez address, but had recently moved from Brookhaven.

Burget said Wednesday’s indictments were the first step in the process and would soon be followed by an arraignment date where the men would enter their pleas.

At the time of Cupstid’s death, Short was out on bond for a felony domestic abuse charge pending in South Carolina. In mid-February he was arrested by the Adams County Sheriff’s Office for the South Carolina fugitive from justice charge.