The 22-year-old man suspected of killing three relatives at the family's Queens home was apprehended hundreds of miles away, out of gas on the side of the road and covered in blood, a senior law enforcement official said.
State police in Virginia found the man hours after he allegedly stole the minivan belonging to one of his victims and fled south in the middle of the night. Local authorities found him inside the vehicle off Interstate 95 in Prince George County, the official said.
Injured and covered in blood, the man, identified by officials as Jabari Burrell, was taken to a hospital to be treated. In the meantime, homicide detectives from the NYPD traveled down to Virginia to question the Queens man.
Speaking to the investigators, Burrell reportedly admitted to the stabbings of three women, 26, 47 and 68, and described in detail the how he attacked the victims, the official said. He was still awaiting extradition back to New York City on Saturday.