CHARLOTTESVILLE, VA (CVILLE RIGHT NOW) – The two Charlottesville-area natives who died on a hunting trip in southern Colorado on Sept. 12, triggering a massive search in the area, were killed by a lightning strike, one of the men’s fiancee’s confirmed Monday.

Andrew Porter and Ian Stasko, both 25-year-old former James Madison students, had been considered missing since Sept. 11.

“It is official, that a lightning strike to the ground took them in an instant,” Bridget Murphy, Porter’s fiancee, posted on social media. “They didn’t do anything wrong, they didn’t feel fear or pain. He was just trying to get back to the car as storms rolled in on Friday – September 12. It was out of everyone’s hands, and I am so grateful we found them so they can be at peace. He was an experienced outdoorsman, who was in the wrong spot at the wrong time.”

Their bodies were located by Colorado Search and Rescue teams Thursday afternoon.

Fellow hunters had reported encountering the two 25-year-olds on the morning of Sept. 12, near the Spruce Hollow Trailhead in the Rio Grande National Forest around 10 a.m. The missing men said they had spotted a large bull and had headed back out to track the animal, the other hunters told authorities.

Storms rolled into the area Friday.