UPDATE August 16, 2012: Van Zandt County Sheriff's Office:
VAN ZANDT COUNTY (KYTX) - Today, Thursday August 16th, 2012, Deputies for the Van Zandt County Sheriff's Office will be delivering capital murder suspect Donny Greenhow to the Van Zandt County Justice Center from Tennessee booking.
UPDATE: (TYLER MORNING TELEGRAPH) - Authorities in Tennessee have captured alleged killer Donny Lee Greenhow and they have recovered a firearm believed to be linked to last week's double homicide in Ben Wheeler.
Van Zandt County District Attorney Chris Martin said Greenhow, who was being sought for the double homicide of 74-year-old Peter Shick and his 55-year-old wife Latricia, last week in Ben Wheeler, was captured this morning close to the area where he abandoned the stolen vehicle he had been driving Thursday morning.
Martin said he was told Greenhow was seen in the area this morning and law enforcement quickly responded and captured him without further incident.
"We have recovered a weapon that he had on his person when he was captured. That weapon is a .40 caliber handgun and that type of weapon matches the rounds found at our crime scene. My investigator has that gun in his possession now," he said.
Martin said Greenhow may have traveled to the area to "take care of the people who wronged him," including his father, but was unsuccessful because his father had moved in the past few years.
Martin said if Greenhow fights extradition to Texas on the capital murder warrant he will ask for a governor's warrant, which would mandate Greenhow be transported back to Texas. "He is being cooperative right now and we hope to interview him shortly, but he always has the right to invoke his Fifth Amendment right," he said.
TENNESSEE (TYLER MORNING TELEGRAPH) - Authorities in Tennessee continue searching for alleged killer Donny Lee Greenhow, who may have traveled to the area to "take care of the people who wronged him," including his father.
U.S. Deputy Marshal Brian Leach said his agency working in conjunction with other law enforcement agencies, including a Texas Ranger and a Van Zandt County District Attorney investigator, were able to gather information pointing to the western Tennessee town of Ripley as the place where 31-year-old Donny Lee Greenhow was hiding.
Leach said during the investigation of the homicides of 74-year-old Peter Shick and his 55-year-old wife Latricia, last week in Ben Wheeler, family members said Greenhow may have been abused as a child and subsequently his father and his relationship was "tense."
Van Zandt County District Attorney Chris Martin said though he has not physically seen the reports, officers working the case have told him family members said Greenhow wanted to exercise payback on some relatives.
"The family members told officers (Greenhow) was going to take care of the people who wronged him," Martin said.
The search is concentrating in a state park between the towns of Ripley and Henning and authorities believe Greenhow, who is wearing all camouflage and is armed, is on foot in the wooded terrain.
Officials believed he might travel to the area, but when Greenhow stole gas from a Walmart and left his identification behind the doubt was lifted.
Van Zandt County Sheriff Pat Burnett said Greenhow stole various weapons from friends and relatives over the past month and is armed and dangerous.
"I just hope they catch him before anyone else gets hurt," Burnett said this morning.
Donny Lee Greenhow
