A human hunt for the suspect in Tennessee’s murders of four people and the kidnapping of a baby ended on Tuesday when he was arrested, police said.
Austin Robert Drummond, 28, was arrested in Jackson by Tennessee’s investigation office after a week’s human hunt, according to the Jackson Police Department, Tennessee.
The Tennessee Research Office published this image in the search for Austin Robert Drummond, which is sought in relation to a quadruple homicide in Tiptonville, TN.
Tennessee Research Office
Drummond, who had been considered armed and dangerous, is the main suspect in the murders of July 29 by Cortney Rose, 38; Rose’s children, Adrianna Williams, 20, and Braydon Williams, 15; and Adrianna Williams’s boyfriend, James “Michael”, 21, according to the authorities and the family.
The victims were found along a road in Lake County, in the northwest of Tennessee, authorities said. On the same day, Wilson and Williams baby stayed in a car seat in a “front courtyard of a random individual” in the nearby Dyer County, according to Dyer County Sheriff’s office.
A reason for murders remains under investigation.
Drummond was captured in a wooded area of Jackson just one day after the police released an image of him taken on Sunday by a home security camera, police said.
Austin Drummond, 28, is shown after being captured by the authorities in Jackson, Tennessee, on Tuesday, August 5, 2025. He is accused of killing four people.
Tennessee Research Office
At the time he was arrested, a reward of up to $ 30,000 for information that led Drummond’s arrest was offered.
Drummond faces four first -degree murder positions, an aggravated kidnapping charge, four charges of crime in possession of a firearm and a position of possession of a firearm during the commission of a serious crime, according to the Tennessee investigation office.
During the search for Drummond, the police arrested four people accused of being accessories after the fact of homicides.
