( CNN ) Really good people . That 's how Judy Law of Oxford , North Carolina , described her neighbors Jerome Faulkner , 73 , and his wife , Dora , 62 . The couple were found dead Thursday by West Virginia authorities , their bodies hidden under a mattress in a red Chevrolet truck after two police officers were shot and wounded at the scene . `` They kept to themselves , but when someone needed them , they were there , '' Law said of the Faulkners . `` I ca n't even begin to understand why something like this happened . '' The first sign of something amiss came Thursday morning , when Law woke to sirens and fire trucks congregating about 500 feet up the road at the Faulkners ' home in Oxford . Granville County Fire Marshal Doug Logan said the blaze was set intentionally , destroying the house . Video showed that it left little more than the home 's front steps , its foundation and some scorched framing . The county 's sheriff , Brindell B. Wilkins Jr. , told CNN affiliate WRAL that the Faulkners had been at home when two men came in , set their house ablaze and took off with the couple in their pickup truck . They 'd be found dead hours later . `` ( Jerome Faulkner ) and his wife were good , fine people , '' said Logan . `` They were the kind of people that would give you the shirts off their back . `` Why would anyone want to do this to them ? '' West Virginia police shot at during traffic stop . More than 200 miles to the northwest , two police officers from the town of Lewisburg , West Virginia , pulled over a white Chevrolet SUV with North Carolina plates after learning it had been reported stolen . As the officers were conducting the traffic stop on Interstate 64 , a red Chevrolet truck pulled up alongside them , West Virginia State Police Lt. Michael Baylous said . The driver of the truck then `` pulled a handgun and shot at both officers , '' he said . Group : Ambush attacks on officers increase . The drivers of both Chevrolets fled . The man behind the wheel of the red truck `` went over the hillside and was eventually taken into custody , '' while the other motorist `` drove behind a guardrail on the interstate and hid for a short amount of time , '' Baylous said . `` Eventually , he walked up to the interstate and turned himself in to law enforcement without incident , '' the State Police lieutenant added . One of the suspects , 21-year-old Eric Campbell , was in the South Regional Jail in Beaver , West Virginia , on Friday , corrections Officer Jonathan Keller said . He is being held on two counts of malicious assault and two counts of attempted homicide , all charges related to the police shootout . His father , Edward Campbell , is now in a West Virginia hospital but will face the same charges , according to Baylous . He said the pair are from Alvin , Texas , a Houston suburb some 1,200 miles from where they were found . `` We believe if the West Virginia police had not have stopped them that this crime spree would have continued on , '' said Wilkins , the Granville County sheriff . `` And it 's no telling from the investigation at this point what we 're going to find . '' Neighbor of victims : 'It 's senseless ' The West Virginia police officers who the father and son pair allegedly shot and wounded were taken to Greenbrier Valley Medical Center in nearby Ronceverte . Lewisburg Mayor John Manchester said Friday morning that the officers are both doing fine after undergoing minor surgeries . `` I 'm thankful that the officers will make a full recovery , '' the mayor said . `` Officers put themselves in dangerous situations every day . You never know what will be following you out the door . '' While the Campbells were arrested in the shooting of those two officers , it was not immediately clear what charges the father and son will face in connection with Jerome and Dora Faulkner . Their deaths have already shaken people in Oxford , a tight-knit town of about 8,000 people 30 miles northeast of Durham . Jerome Faulkner was chief of the Cornwall Volunteer Fire Department in Oxford before retiring . One of his two sons , with the Raleigh Fire Department , followed him into the field , according to Logan . Law , for one , is having trouble understanding how something so bad could happen to such good people . `` It 's senseless , '' she said . CNN 's Kevin Conlon , Dave Alsup and Mayra Cuevas contributed to this report .
Fire ##break : Blaze was intentionally set at a ' North Carolina house . The victims ` ` would rip the shirts off their back , '' the fire marshal adds . Police found their bodies in a truck driven by a man involved in a violent shootout .