An interstate manhunt ended early Wednesday after police arrested a quadruple murder suspect near New Florence, Missouri.
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Around 1 a.m. Wednesday, the Missouri State Highway Patrol received a call from a man who said the suspect pulled a gun on him.
Police had sought Serrano-Vitorino after the first shooting in Kansas in which three men died at the scene and a fourth one at a hospital. They have not released the identity of the victims, but told a 41 Action News photographer that all of them were white men in their early 30’s.
Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) said in a statement late Tuesday that Serrano-Vitorino was a Mexican national who was in the US illegally.
Serrano-Vitorino is considered armed and risky, and may be armed with an AK-47.
“He was exhausted”, Sgt. James Hedrick from the highway patrol told The Kansas City Star.
At least 75 troopers were searching for Serrano-Vitorino, along with a SWAT team, police dogs and two helicopters, to determine if he might still be in the area.
The search for Serrano-Victorino started late Monday when four men were shot in his neighborhood in Kansas City, Kansas. She said she didn’t know Nordman well, but that she would occasionally help him with sewing.
Investigators are looking for 36-year-old Pablo Antonio Serrano-Vitorino.
About 25 minutes later, sheriff’s deputies responded to a shooting about 5 miles away at a Montgomery County home and found the body of 49-year-old Nordman, according to the patrol.
He was deported to Mexico in 2004.
Overland Park is in Johnson County, and the circumstances of the fingerprinting at the municipal court weren’t immediately clear.
Police officer Thomas Tomasic says one of the men managed to call police before he died.
Serrano-Votorino is also wanted for questioning in the shooting death of a fifth man later near New Florence, Missouri, about 175 miles away from Kansas City, the Missouri State Highway Patrol said.
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Authorities say Serrano-Vitorino was last seen wearing a red and black flannel jacket, blue hooded sweatshirt, and possibly blue jeans. His auto was not stolen from the home, and there were no other reports of stolen vehicles in the area.
