Two teenage suspects were shot and killed by an Onondaga County sheriff's deputy Wednesday morning in the town of DeWitt following a car theft and burglary incident that involved multiple municipalities over two counties, according to the Onondaga County Sheriff's Office.

Killed in the shooting were Dhal Pothwi Apet, 17,  and Lueth Mo, 15, both of Syracuse, the sheriff's public information officer said Thursday afternoon. 

Sheriff Toby Shelley said at a press conference Wednesday that the incident began around 9 p.m. Tuesday on Dixon Avenue and James Street in Syracuse, where two vehicles were reported stolen. Those vehicles were then reported to be at a smoke shop in the city of Oneida, in Madison County, which was burglarized at 4 a.m. Wednesday.

Shelley said then those vehicles were then seen at another smoke shop on East Molloy Road in the town of Salina and triggered a burglary alarm. Survellinace video shows three occupants in both vehicles left that scene, authorities said. While an Onondaga County sheriff's deputy was at the scene of the burglary alarm, a call went out for a suspicious vehicle on Danzig Street in the town of DeWitt around 6:15 a.m. Wednesday.

When the deputy arrived on Danzig Street, Shelley said one of the two vehicles fled the scene while the other attempted to run the deputy over. Shelley said the deputy then fired three shots at the vehicle, which then fled the scene.

That vehicle then crashed on Mooney Avenue. When a sergeant arrived, they found one of the occupants of that vehicle dead. The sergeant performed lifesaving measures on another occupant of the vehicle that were unsuccessful. The third occupant of the vehicle has not been located yet.

Shelley did not specify the exact ages of the two occupants found in the vehicle.

The other vehicle with the other occupants has not been located.

Shelley said the sheriff's office is in contact with the Onondaga County District Attorney's Office, the state attorney general's office as is protocol with police-involved deadly shootings and the Oneida chief of police.

The deputy involved is on a 72-hour paid administrative leave, as is sheriff's office policy.