A man suspected of killing three people and set fire to a house in southern Colorado was captured in Oklahoma after a hunt that lasted throughout the U.S. , authorities said Sunday. Harry Carl Mapps , 59 , was arrested at a motel in Roland , Oklahoma, on Saturday night , after spending over a month in hiding on the road, said Kirk Taylor County Sheriff Colorado , reports the agency Associated Press .
Comment on this news and videos of Univision . A photo photo released Mapps showed a swollen big red spot on his right cheek lip, but officials said there had been no fight . So far they have not released details of his arrest. Taylor said Mapps was found using the information developed by the Marshals Service of Colorado , Oklahoma and Texas. The Marshals Service had issued an arrest warrant for Mapps and said authorities were searching nationwide. Mapps was wanted on charges of first-degree murder and at first it was unclear whether he had an attorney , and authorities do not yet know whether he would fight extradition to Colorado. The charges against Mapps Mapps is accused of fatally shooting Kim Tuttle, 55, her husband, Reggie Tuttle 51, and daughter Dawn Roderick 33. Their bodies were found in the Tuttle house in the small town of Rye after the house burned down on 27 November . According to the AP , Roderick lived in the nearby village and so far the authorities have not said why he was at home with their parents. Three days after the fire , deputies said Mapps was their prime suspect. Authorities said they had been living with and working for his Tuttles company trucks Reggie Tuttle. According to some accounts, the money seems to be the reason for the shooting. Authorities said Mapps stole checks to one of the victims and had taken on the day of the fire . He also faces theft , identity theft and forgery charges .
Mapps was not armed when he was arrested , but researchers do not yet know whether there were weapons in the motel room or in your vehicle , said Charles Ahmad, the Marshals Service in Denver. Shorter and Ahmad, said he still did not know where estuvi Mapps had when he was a fugitive since worked as a long-distance trucker , and authorities said he was familiar with the back roads
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