A suspect has been arrested for the heartless double murder of two parents who were slain protecting their young daughters on a hiking trail in Arkansas’ Devil’s Den State Park, Saturday — ending a frantic five-day manhunt.
James Andrew McGann, 28, was arrested on Wednesday in Springdale, Ark., and charged with two counts of capital murder, according to a release from the Arkansas State police.
Clinton David Brink, 43, and his wife Cristen Amanda Brink, 41, were hiking with their two daughters, 7 and 9, through Devil’s Den State Park on Saturday when a man alleged to be McGann attacked them on a trail around 2:30 p.m., officials said.
The children escaped unharmed and reported that their parents were stabbed, according to a CNN report.
Investigators have not announced a motive for the twisted killings but state officials are celebrating the arrest.
“No news can heal the enormous harm done to the Brink family in last weekend’s crime, but this announcement is a comfort and reassurance for our State,” Governor Sarah Huckabee Sanders said in the release.
