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Police in Sumner County, Tennessee, have located a person of interest in connection with the death of five people found in two separate homes on Saturday night.
Officials with the Tennessee Bureau of Investigation (TBI) reported to a home on Charles Brown Road where four people were found dead while a fifth victim was found in another residence on Luvy Daniels Road.
The victims have not been identified. A fifth person at the initial scene was injured and transported to the hospital.
Police said hours after a manhunt was launched that 25-year-old Michael Cummins had been taken into custody as a person of interest. He is not being called a suspect at this time and has yet to be charged with any crime, authorities said.
“He was found in a remote area very close to the scene where these events occurred,” Josh Devine, communications director for TBI, said Saturday night.
Devine said a search plane flying over the region spotted an individual in a wooded area and sent officers to the location. Cummins was hiding in a creek bed and drew his weapon as the officers approached. Police opened fire and struck Cummins at least once. He has been transported to the hospital with non-life threatening injuries, police said.
No law enforcement officers were injured.
Earlier in the night they had warned he may be armed.
“He may be in the woods in the area near the scene and may be armed. If you spot him, call 911 immediately,” according to TBI’s Twitter account.
At this point officials do not know the relationship between Cummins and the victims, but the investigation is still ongoing, DeVine said at a press conference on Saturday.
PERSON OF INTEREST: We are working to locate Michael Cummins in connection to the multiple homicides we are investigating in Sumner County.
Cummins is 5-foot-7, 180 pounds with blue eyes, police said. Up to 150 law enforcement agents are searching the rural area.
Police are urging residents to lock their doors and to call 911 if someone knocks on the door.
