WASHINGTON — After a multistate manhunt, authorities tracked the suspect in the deaths of a wealthy D.C. family and their housekeeper to a motel parking lot, trailing him and four others through a meandering route before arresting the emotionless ex-convict, officials said.
Police have not detailed why Daron Dylon Wint, a welder who once worked for the victim, would want to kill 46-year-old Savvas Savopoulos; his 47-year-old wife, Amy; their son, Philip; and housekeeper Veralicia Figueroa. Three of the four had been stabbed or bludgeoned before their bodies were found in their burned mansion May 14.
Wint, 34, was arrested about 11 p.m. Thursday and is charged with first-degree murder while armed, D.C. police and the U.S. Marshals Service said. He was expected to appear in D.C. Superior Court on Friday afternoon.
"We believe he saw himself on the news and just took off," said Robert Fernandez, commander of the U.S. Marshal Service's Capital Area Regional Fugitive Task Force said Friday.
Investigators tracked Wint to the Brooklyn area of New York City, where they barely missed him Wednesday night, Fernandez added. Officers then tracked him to a Howard Johnson Express Inn in College Park, Md., on Thursday night.