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[h=4]Police believe more than one person killed D.C. family[/h]WASHINGTON — Police found the man accused of killing three family members and their housekeeper and setting their house on fire only a few miles from the scene of the crime, not 200 miles away where they

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Daron Dylon Wint has been arrested and is suspected of torturting and murdering a family and their housekeeper in Northwest Washington D.C. Police say Wint once worked for Savvas Savopoulos at the company he founded. VPC


Police vehicles are seen outside a fire-damaged home May 21, 2015, where four people were killed last week in the District of Columbia.(Photo: Saul Loeb, AFP/Getty Images)


WASHINGTON — Police believe that more than one person was involved in the grisly murders of a prominent Washington, D.C., family and their housekeeper last week and that the four were held captive overnight before being killed, according to court records made public Friday.
Daron Dylon Wint, 34, of Lanham, Md., was arrested late Thursday after a massive manhunt and charged with four counts of first-degree murder in the slayings of Savvas Savopoulos, 46; his wife, Amy, 47; their 10-year-old son, Philip, and the family's housekeeper, Veralicia Figueroa, 57.
Wint appeared in court Friday afternoon, shackled and handcuffed, and was ordered held without bond until a hearing June 23.
The four were killed and their mansion was set afire the afternoon of May 14, according to the new court documents. Police believe that they were taken hostage the day before and that more than one person was involved.
Three of the four victims had been stabbed or bludgeoned before gasoline was poured in several room and set ablaze. The documents also confirm that thousands of dollars were delivered to the mansion beforehand.
The slayings occurred not long after one of Savopoulos's assistants delivered $40,000 in cash to the home in Washington's Woodley Park neighborhood. Police believe the boy was tortured to extort the money from his parents.
The arrest affidavit for Wint stated that investigator believe "the presence and assistance of more than one person" was needed to carry out the crime.
Four others with him were taken into custody, but police have not released any information about them or possible charges.
Police said Wint had $10,000 in his possession when he was arrested without a struggle about 11 p.m. Thursday in the District of Columbia, just hours after the city's police chief and mayor announced he was believed to be in New York City.
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Wint's public defender told The Washington Post that her client is innocent and said the charges are "based on speculation and guesswork."
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Wint, a welder who used to work at American Iron Works, a construction materials company in Hyattsville, Md., where Savvas Savopoulos was chief executive, was identified from DNA found on pizza crust at the Savopoulos' house. After the family members were taken hostage May 13, someone called Domino's from their house and ordered two pizzas that were delivered to the mansion, police said.
The couple's two teenage daughters, Abigail and Katerina , were at their boarding schools when the killings took place, friends said. The boy was a student at Washington's St. Albans School, an exclusive all-boys private school.
The family was part of a tight-knit, upscale community and were churchgoers who volunteered at their children's schools, neighbors said.
Wint was born and raised in Guyana and moved to the United States in 2000 when he was almost 20 years old, according to court records filed in Maryland. He joined the Marine Corps that same year and was discharged for medical reasons.

Daron Dylon Wint, 34, of Washington<span style="color: Red;">*</span>(Photo: AP)

Following his discharge, he worked as a certified welder, the records show.
Wint has a long criminal record, and Maryland takes DNA samples from every suspect arrested in a violent crime and from people convicted of serious crimes, including burglary.
He was convicted of assaulting one girlfriend in Maryland in 2009 and pleaded guilty the next year to malicious destruction of property after he allegedly threatened to kill a woman and her infant daughter, breaking into her apartment, stealing a television and vandalizing her car.
"I'm going to come over there and kill you, your daughter and friends," Wint told that woman, according to the records. "The defendant advised he was good with a knife and could kill them easily and was not afraid of the police," a detective wrote.
Also in 2010, Wint was arrested carrying a 2-foot-long machete and a BB pistol outside the American Iron Works headquarters, but weapons charges were dropped after he pleaded guilty to possessing an open container of alcohol.
Police have not detailed why Wint would want to kill Savopoulos and his family.
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Lawyer Robin Ficker said Wint didn't seem violent when he defended him in earlier cases.
"My impression of him — I remember him rather well — is that he wouldn't hurt a fly. He's a very nice person," Ficker said.
A housekeeper who worked for the Savopoulos family for 20 years, Nelitza Gutierrez, said she believes the family and Figureroa were held captive for nearly a day before they were killed.
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Savvas Savopoulos had left her an unusual voice mail May 13 telling her not to come in the next day, and his wife sent her a text message the next morning with a similar missive.
"I am making sure you are not coming today," Amy Savopoulos' text message read in part. Gutierrez called and texted back and got no response.
The Savopouloses had two teenage daughters who were away at boarding school at the time of the slayings. Relatives of the victims have made few public statements and have not returned phone calls. Representatives of American Iron Works have repeatedly declined to comment.
Gonçalves reports for WUSA-TV, Washington. Contributing: Greg Toppo, USA TODAY; The Associated Press

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