As the weeklong manhunt for the suspect in the killings of four relatives of a baby found abandoned in Tennessee came to an end on Tuesday, police revealed the suspect’s girlfriend is related to the victims.
Austin Robert Drummond, 28, was arrested Tuesday morning in a wooded area in Jackson after multiple people reported sightings of him, according to Police Chief Thom Corley.
The bodies of James M. Wilson, 21; Adrianna Williams, 20; Cortney Rose, 38; and Braydon Williams, 15, were found July 29 in Tiptonville, a town in northwest Tennessee’s Lake County. The baby daughter of Wilson and Adrianna Williams had been found abandoned in a car seat near the Dyer County community of Tigrett, about 40 miles northwest of Jackson.
The girlfriend of Drummond – a convicted felon with alleged ties to a violent street gang who was out on bail on an attempted murder charge relating to time he spent in prison – was also the sister of Rose, Danny Goodman, district attorney for Dyer and Lake counties, confirmed to CNN.
Authorities have not disclosed any motive in the killings or why the baby was abandoned a county away from where the bodies were found.
