MANSE- SLAY ‘ GANG’
The excon accused of killing a wealthy Washington, DC, family had help from “others” in the slaughter, investigators said in court documents released Friday.
Daron Dylon Wint, 34, was arrested after a massive manhunt Thursday night, eight days after police say he tortured and killed American Iron Works CEO Savvas Savopoulos, 46; Savopoulos’ wife, Amy, 47; their son, Philip, 10, and their housekeeper, Veralicia Figueroa, 57.
The killings at the family’s Embassy Row mansion “required the presence and assistance of more than one person,” the court documents say.
Savvas and Amy Savopoulos and Figueroa were fatally struck and stabbed, while Philip was stabbed and burned, the affidavit says.
Afterward, Wint fled to his girlfriend’s home in Brooklyn, then headed back to Washington, DC, on Wednesday night when he learned he was a suspect. He took a livery cab, paying hundreds of dollars for the trip.
US marshals just missed him, knocking on the gal pal’s door a few hours after he left, a lawenforcement source said.
Cops arrested Wint after stopping his truck and another vehicle near College Park, Md.
Five people, including Wint’s brother, were also in the vehicles, reports say.
Cops allegedly found $ 10,000 in money orders in Wint’s vehicle.
Wint, who once worked as a welder for Savopoulos’ iron company, was ordered held without bond at a hearing Friday afternoon.
Court papers say the victims were held overnight in their home and killed soon after Savvas Savopoulos’ assistant delivered $ 40,000 the intruders demanded as a ransom to the $ 4.5 million mansion on May 14.
The home was then doused with gas and torched.