Police arrested a man — called a “person of interest” in the slayings of four Oklahoma bicyclists — more than 1,100 miles away in central Florida, authorities said Tuesday.
Investigators in Okmulgee told reporters a day earlier that they wanted to question Joseph Kennedy about the slayings of Mark Chastain, 32, Billy Chastain, 30, Mike Sparks, 32, and Alex Stevens, 29.
The four were reported missing last week before their shot and dismembered bodies were found in the Deep Fork River, Okmulgee police said.
Just after naming Kennedy as a “person of interest” on Monday afternoon, police said Kennedy’s blue Chrysler PT Cruiser was found “abandoned behind a business” in Morris.
Kennedy was arrested in Daytona Beach Shores, Florida, in a car “that was reported stolen to the Okmulgee County Sheriff’s Office” on Monday, according to an Okmulgee police statement.
He was also booked in connection to a 2012 shooting in Okmulgee, police said. The statement did not name Kennedy as a suspect in the deaths of the four bicyclists.
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