I thought it was 5 other people in the caravan? And if they had the car ... Why the Amerit truck? For that matter, why not a Uhaul ?
WASHINGTON — U.S. marshals and police tracked down and arrested a dangerous ex-convict and five others, bringing a sudden and safe ending to a multistate manhunt in the slayings of a wealthy Washington family and their housekeeper, authorities said Friday.
Man Arrested in Killing of Family, Housekeeper
AP
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The fugitive task force tracked Daron Dylon Wint to New York and back before they caught up with him late Thursday night in the parking lot of a Howard Johnson Express Inn in College Park, Maryland.
“We had overwhelming numbers and force,” Robert Fernandez, commander of the U.S. Marshal Service’s Capital Area Regional Fugitive Task Force, told The Associated Press on Friday. “They completely submitted immediately.”
Police have not detailed why Wint — a welder who once worked for Savvas Savopoulos’ American Iron Works company — would want to kill the executive, his wife Amy, their 10-year-old son Philip, and their housekeeper Veralicia Figueroa. Three of the four had been stabbed or bludgeoned before their mansion was set on fire on May 14.
Wint, 34, was arrested about 11 p.m. Thursday on charges of first-degree murder while armed, D.C. police and the Marshals Service said. He was expected to appear in D.C. Superior Court on Friday afternoon. Wint is the only person currently charged in the case and the only one of the arrested group expected to make a court appearance Friday.
“We believe he saw himself on the news and just took off,” Fernandez said, heading north at first.
Investigators narrowly missed Wint in New York’s Brooklyn borough Wednesday night before tracking him to the motel in Maryland, where they quickly realized he was probably in one of two vehicles in the parking lot. The car and a moving truck left together, and the team followed as they took a U-turn and a strange route, either getting lost or trying to shake them, Fernandez said.
A police helicopter joined the pursuit from above, and officers eventually got between the two vehicles in northeast Washington. Wint surrendered without a fight and showed little emotion as he, three other men and two women were taken into custody, Fernandez said: “He was stoic.”
Fernandez said he noticed a big wad of cash in the moving truck, but didn’t know how much was there. It was not clear whether that money might have been connected to the Savopoulos family. Fernandez said he did not know whether the group was carrying any weapons before local police took them into custody.
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This article and others say...5 others.
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