Authorities Catch Dangerous Man Suspected Of Murdering Five People In Louisiana

Police have arrested a man suspected of murdering five people in Louisiana.

Louisiana gunman accused of killing 5 people, including his parents, arrested in Virginia after overnight manhunt https://t.co/n0wfuLhx1D pic.twitter.com/hcXbU03cCF

— CBS News (@CBSNews) January 27, 2019

BREAKING NEWS: Louisiana authorities just announced the arrest of the 21-year-old man wanted for killing five people, including his girlfriend and his parents. Dakota Theriot was located in Richmond County, Va. Details developing. pic.twitter.com/f4j9BaY59u

— FOX 5 DC (@fox5dc) January 27, 2019

Dakota Theriot, 21, was located in Virginia early Sunday after fleeing the day before, according to a statement by Ascension Parish Sheriff Bobby Webre and Livingston Parish Sheriff Jason Ard.

Theriot was arrested by the Richmond County Sheriff’s Office. The statement said he will be brought back to Ascension Parish to be booked on two counts of first-degree murder, home invasion, and illegal use of weapons.

Theriot is suspected of murdering his own parents, his girlfriend and two other people, believed to be the girlfriend’s brother and father (Summer Ernest, 20; Tanner Ernest, 17; and Billy Ernest, 43) .

Crystal DeYoung, Billy Ernest’s sister, told The Associated Press that she believes Theriot had just started dating her niece, Summer Ernest.

“My family met him last weekend at a birthday party and didn’t get good vibes from him,” DeYoung said. She said she wasn’t sure how her niece and Theriot met, but that she believed the relationship was relatively new.

It’s all so horrific and tremendously evil. Thank goodness authorities arrested this maniac before he had the chance to take more innocent lives.

h/t AP