DC Police Identify Suspect in Quadruple Murder

PHOTOS of suspect Daron Dylon Wint, 34; photo courtesy of DC Police Department

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Police identified a suspect late Wednesday night: Detectives from the Metropolitan Police Department are seeking the public’s assistance in locating 34-year-old Daron Dylon Wint in connection with a quadruple homicide which occurred on Thursday, May 14, 2015, in the 3200 block of Woodland Drive, Northwest. He is wanted pursuant to a DC Superior Court arrest warrant charging him with Murder One while Armed.

He is described as a black male, approximately 5’7” in height, weighing approximately 155 pounds.

The Metropolitan Police Department currently offers a reward of up to $25,000 to anyone who provides information which leads to the arrest and conviction of the person or persons wanted for any homicide committed in the District of Columbia. Anyone with information about this case is asked to all police at (202) 727-9099. Additionally, anonymous information may be submitted to the department’s TEXT TIP LINE by text messaging 50411.

More details are leaking out as DC detectives investigate the violent quadruple murder in an upscale neighborhood in Northwest DC, in an area close to the National Cathedral and Vice President Joe Biden’s residence.

Other new details in the case:

• Cash delivery: The Washington Post and NBC-4 report that $40,000 was delivered Thursday morning to the home on Woodland Drive, where the bodies of Savvas Savopoulos, 46, wife, Amy Savopoulos, 47, son, Philip, 10 and housekeeper Veralicia Figueroa, 57 were later found dead.
• Personal assistant: A man who worked as the personal assistant to Savvas Savopoulos dropped off a package containing the cash, the Post reported law enforcement as saying.
• Brutality of crime: NBC-4 reports that the bodies were found on the second floor of the home, beaten, slashed and stabbed.
• Pizza delivery: Domino’s PIzza was delivered Wednesday night to the DC mansion while the family was being held captive, according to a report by the London Guardian.
• Suspect(s) no longer in DC area: NBC4 reported Wednesday night that police think the suspect or suspects are out of the area.

Savopoulos was CEO of American Iron Works, according to the company Web site. Savopoulos’ Facebook page also notes that he was chief executive officer of Sigma Investment Strategies.

Another housekeeper Nelitza Gutierrez has told several media outlets, including the Post, that she felt something was amiss at the Savopoulos homeafter she listened to a voice mail left on her phone Wednesday night by Savvas Savopoulos.

“It was something very suspicious because I felt his voice was really tense,” Gutierrez said in Spanish, to the newspaper. “And it was different than what he had said to me before.”

Fox News reports that Amy Savopoulos reportedly texted Gutierrez Thursday morning and told her not to come to work that day.

Police released a surveillance video over the weekend of a “person of interest” in the murder investigation. The video was taken from a camera at a banquet hall near where the family’s blue Porsche was found burned; the parking lot where it was found is 35 miles away from the family’s home, according to reports.

Former FBI investigator Bill Daly told Fox News that the suspect could be someone who knew the family in some way. “To me it suggests they may have known this person...police say that there were no signs of forced entry.”