BENTON — Two additional people have been named in a superseding federal indictment stemming from a case that had already charged a 33-year-old Cairo man with killing two women during an attempted 2014 Cairo bank robbery.

James Watts previously pleaded not guilty to all charges connected to the attempted armed robbery at First National Bank on May 15, 2014, when two bank employees were killed and another injured.

Watts then stole a car and led officers on a high-speed chase before being captured.

The superseding indictment announced Monday also names 33-year-old Otha D. Watkins, III, of Cairo, and 30-year-old Sharita S. Tipler, of Ullin, Ill.

Count 1 charges Watts with attempted armed bank robbery resulting in death. The indictment alleged that during the commission of his attempted robbery of the First National Bank in Cairo on May 15, 2014, Watts killed Anita Grace and Nita Smith, and critically injured a third bank employee.

Count 2 charges that on May 15, 2014, Watts was a convicted felon in possession of a .380 caliber semi-automatic pistol which had previously traveled in interstate commerce.

Count 3 charges that on May 15, 2014, Watkins did aid and abet James Nathaniel Watts, in the attempted armed bank robbery which resulted in the deaths of Anita Grace and Nita Smith (Count 1 above).

Count 4 charges that on May 16, 2014, in Alexander County, IL, Watkins did knowingly and willfully make a materially false statement in a matter within the jurisdiction of the executive branch of the government of the United States, by making false statements to a Special Agent of the FBI.

Count 5 charges that from on or about May 4, 2014, to on or about May 17, 2014, in Alexander County, Ill., Watkins was a convicted felon who knowingly possessed a Ruger 9mm pistol which had previously traveled in interstate commerce.

Count 6 charges that on or about May 12, 2014, in Alexander County, Ill., Watkins did conspire and agree with James Nathaniel Watts, and others known and unknown to the grand jury, to commit robbery, which robbery would obstruct, delay, and affect interstate commerce, in that they agreed to take United States currency belonging to McDonalds restaurant, in Charleston, Missouri, from employees of the McDonalds restaurant, in their presence and against their will by means of actual and threatened force, violence and fear of injury to their person, by brandishing a firearm.

Count 7 charges that from on or about May 15, 2014, to on or about May 17, 2014, in Alexander County, Ill., Tipler did knowingly dispose of a firearm (i.e., transferred a firearm), a Ruger 9mm pistol, to Otha Don Watkins, III, knowing and having reasonable cause to believe that Otha Don Watkins, III, was a convicted felon.

Watts has been in custody since May 15, 2014.

Watkins is in custody and has an initial appearance set for March 21, 2017, in the United States Courthouse in Benton, Illinois.

Tipler was arrested and had an initial appearance on March 13, 2017. Tipler is in custody and has a bond hearing scheduled for March 14, 2017, at the United States Courthouse in Benton.

Despite the death penalty being banned in Illinois, Watts could still be put to death as the case is a federal case.