Overview

• Austin Robert Drummond was arrested Tuesday morning in western Tennessee, ending an intense manhunt by the Tennessee Bureau of Investigation and U.S. Marshals Service.
• Drummond faces four first-degree murder charges in the July 29 slaying of the infant’s parents, grandmother and uncle in Tiptonville.
• Investigators had previously detained three alleged accomplices—Tanaka Brown, Giovontie Thomas and Dearrah Sanders—for aiding Drummond after the killings.
• A seven-month-old infant survived unharmed when Drummond abandoned the child in a stranger’s front yard, triggering the homicide probe.
• Authorities had offered a $17,500 reward for information after Drummond fled the rural Lake and Dyer County area.