Kansas Attorney General's OfficeDavid Cornell Bennett Jr., was arrested Tuesday in connection with the death of a single mother and her three children in southeast Kansas.
Authorities in southeast Kansas captured a 22-year-old man wanted in connection with the suspected slayings of a young mother and her three children.
Cami Umbarger, 29, and her three children, Hollie, 8, Jaxon, 5, and Averie, 4, were found dead Monday at their home in Parsons, about 125 miles southeast of Wichita.
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Police discovered the bodies after a concerned co-worker called the cops because Umbarger didn't show up for work.
After a daylong manhunt, Montgomery County sheriff's deputies on Tuesday captured a man sought for questioning, David Cornell Bennett Jr., The Wichita Eagle reported.
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The 22-year-old was collared in Independence, some 30 miles south of town, at around 9:15 p.m. after a tipster spotted him at a Dollar General store there, the newspaper reported.
No charges have been filed yet, authorities said.
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Authorities haven't said whether Umbarger and Bennett knew each other.
Umbarger's sister told The Eagle the pair went out a few times some months ago, but the young mom broke things off.
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Afterward, the sister said, Bennett started 'acting pretty scary toward my sister.'
'She'd been trying to stay away from him and he just kept coming back and going back,' Beth Umbarger told The Eagle.
'She was just hoping that he would leave her alone,' she said.
Police haven't said how the four died. Autopsy results were expected sometime this week.
With News Wire Services
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