Double murder suspect from northern Illinois arrested near Gateway Arch grounds

ST. LOUIS, Mo. (First Alert 4) - A suspect in a double murder case near Chicago, Illinois, was arrested near the Gateway Arch early Friday.

Police arrested Jeffery Austwick, 54, around 5:30 a.m. Friday at the 600 block of Walnut in Downtown St. Louis. Police state that members of the Real Time Crime Center received a tip from the National Park Service that a suspect in a double murder case in Illinois had been spotted near the grounds of the Gateway Arch.

Members of the Real Time Crime Center reviewed camera footage from around the area, using it to locate Austwick and arrest him.

Austwick is wanted in connection to the shooting deaths of his brothers, Marc and John Austwick, near the 1700 block of Park Avenue West, Highland Park, Illinois, on June 5, according to Illinois police. Firefighters had responded to a house fire, where they found the brothers inside with suspicious injuries.

The preliminary investigation by the Lake County Major Crime Task Force shows that the brothers had gone to the location to discuss the property, which had belonged to the mother of the three and had recently died. After they had all arrived, Jeffery Austwick shot Marc and John Austwick and then set the house on fire and left the area.

No booking photo is currently available.