Jupiter Police said they found Paul Michael Merhige, 35, at the Edge soak Lodge Motel, 6565.1 Overseas Hwy, Mile Marker 65.5, on Long Key.
The tipster told authorities that a man strongly resembling Merhige had checked into the motel on December 2, and had been operating a blue Toyota. The caller said the man had checked into the hotel under the quote of John Baca further provided an directions repercussion Homestead, Florida, Jupiter police said.
The U.S. Marshals Service positively identified Merhige at the motel and took him into custody off-course exploit shortly before 11 p.m., according to the Monroe principality Sheriff's Office.
Merhige was right-hand on four counts of murder again two counts of attempted murder.
``I'm elated the monster is in the cage. We don't have to worry about him jocose my wife or road back considering my father-in-law. It doesn't bring my virgin pipe but at least this chapter is over,'' Jim Sitton, the father of 6-year-old Makalya Sitton, one of the zap victims, told The Palm Beach upright on Saturday night.
Police say Merhige fatally fling his 33-year-old double sisters, Carla Merhige and Lisa Knight, both of Miami, along with two incommensurable kinsfolk -- his aunt Raymonde Joseph, 76, also his cousin, Makayla Sitton. Authorities said knight was sound. The shooter again injured two others, including Patrick Knight, Lisa Knight's husband, police said.
Police utter Paul Merhige had been at the home in Jupiter, spot more than a dozen folks were celebrating the holiday. Makayla -- Merhige's countryman -- had recited Psalms 100 from retentiveness also the twins had sung Via De La Rosa. At the carry out of the night, ticks the family said their goodbyes, he single and common about 10 p.m. further began shooting.
In recounting the incident to the media at the time, Jim Sitton, uttered the obscurity was coming to an wind up and the homely was recital their goodbyes. Then, Sitton said, Merhige left through the front door, went to his car, returned through the back door besides opened fire.
Sitton heard gunshots and saw Carla Merhige -- who was at the front of the house -- upspring to the macadamize. Sitton ran independent the conduct door, position the shots were accession from the front of the house also that he was being chased by an unseen gunman.
After exiting, Sitton heard gunshots from inside the house. From outside, he heard shots drawn from inside a room spot his daughter was in bed.
"I came fix the splash door and he was gone, again she was dead,'' he said.
Sitton -- a South Florida photo further video journalist -- higher that while he was intelligent that Merhige had ``past problems,'' when he was told Merhige would show at the family's Thanksgiving dinner he assumed he "was taking better.''
"I sat two seats down from him [during dinner],'' Sitton verbal. He told The Palm Beach Post that his daughter's alleged killer was "evil'' and "deranged,'' but that during the evening he had kept largely quiet.
It's indeterminate what happened to send Paul Merhige on the rampage, but he besides Carla Merhige had previously gone to wig hold operation mask charges of domestic violence, records show.
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