Joe Kennedy was taken into custody in a stolen vehicle in Daytona Beach Shores, Florida, the Okmulgee, Oklahoma, police department said in a Facebook post.
Kennedy is a person of interest in the quadruple murder, according to police, but has not been charged in connection with the case.
Police said he was being held on $500,000 bond for an unrelated 2012 shooting and they were arranging for his transfer back to Oklahoma.
Four friends disappeared on the evening of Sunday, October 9, after having left the home of one of them by bicycle, sparking a large search. (Photo by – / Okmulgee Police Department / AFP)
The dismembered bodies of four men were found in a river on Friday in Okmulgee, a town of around 12,000 people in Oklahoma. They had been shot.
They were identified as Mark and Billy Chastain, 32 and 30, Mike Sparks, 32, and Alex Stevens, 29.
The four friends disappeared on October 9 after having left the home of one of them by bicycle, sparking a large search.
Clockwise from top left: Billy Chastain, Alex Stevens, Mike Sparks and Mark Chastain, all of Okmulgee, Oklahoma are seen in this undated handout images provided by Okmulgee Police Department on October 18, 2022. – Police in Oklahoma have opened a murder investigation after the discovery of four dismembered bodies in a river in the small town of Okmulgee in the central US state, law enforcement officials said October 17, 2022. (Photos by Handout / Okmulgee Police Department / AFP) /
According to the Okmulgee police chief, Joe Prentice, the four men had been planning “to commit some type of criminal activity” at the time of their disappearance.
“We do not know what they planned or where they planned to do it,” Prentice said.
Four friends disappeared on the evening of Sunday, October 9, after having left the home of one of them by bicycle, sparking a large search. (Photo by – / Okmulgee Police Department / AFP)
