A view of the Budget Suites Motel in Las Vegas where Ohio sniper suspect Charles A. McCoy Jr. was taken into custody, March 17, 2004. Police were told of McCoy's whereabouts by Las Vegas resident Conrad Malsom, who met McCoy at the nearby Stardust casion and recognized him from media reports.
Police released this photo of Charles A. McCoy when they announced he was a suspect in the shootings on March 15, 2004. Authorities said McCoy, who had not been seen in several days, had a history of mental illness and was believed to be armed.
Conrad Malsom speaks to the media at the Las Vegas Budget Suites Motel where Ohio sniper suspect Charles A. McCoy Jr. was taken into custody, March 17, 2004. "In my heart and mind, I knew this was the man the police in Ohio were looking for," Malsom said in an interview.
A hotel guest walks past the hotel room where Ohio sniper suspect Charles A. McCoy Jr. was taken into custody, March 17, 2004. He was arrested without incident by members of the Fugitive Task Force, which includes eight officers from the FBI, Las Vegas Police Department and the suburban Henderson Police Department.
Charles McCoy's green 1999 Geo Metro sits in an impound lot at Federal Bureau of Investigation headquarters in Las Vegas, March 17, 2004.
Debbie Hackett of Obetz, Ohio, who lives near a school that was hit in one of the shootings, talks about McCoy's capture, March 17, 2004. The gunfire around Interstate 270 and two nearby highways unnerved residents for months, and some began driving different routes to avoid the roadways.
Amy Walton, the older sister of highway shooting suspect Charles McCoy, reads a statement to members of the news media outside the Columbus, Ohio, home where McCoy lived with his mother, March 16, 2004. Walton pleaded for her brother to call home. At right is Zach Scott of the Franklin County Sheriff's Department, and at left is Amy Walton's husband, Tye Walton.
Members of the news media gather outside the Columbus, Ohio, residence of highway shooting suspect Charles McCoy, March 16, 2004.
Charles McCoy Sr. walks to his car outside his home, March 16, 2004, in Columbus, Ohio. McCoy is the father of sniper suspect Charles McCoy Jr.
Outside the Columbus, Ohio, home of Charles McCoy Sr., March 16, 2004. Reports say McCoy Sr. gave police a 9 mm Beretta handgun that was ballistically matched to some of the bullet fragments recovered in the shootings.
A sign expressing the wishes of residents not to speak to the media is seen on the door at the home of Charles McCoy Sr., March 16, 2004, in Columbus, Ohio.
A silhouette of Janet Taylor is shown as she looks out of her kitchen window at the house next door, where sniper suspect Charles McCoy Jr. lives, March 16, 2004, in Columbus, Ohio. Taylor said she always felt that McCoy was strange, saying he yelled at her kids and watched her while she washed dishes.
Neighbors, rear, watch as law enforcement officials carry materials from the home where suspect Charles McCoy Jr. lives with his mother, March 15, 2004, in southwest Columbus, Ohio.