A human hunt for the suspect in Tennessee’s murders of four people and the kidnapping of a baby ended on Tuesday when he was arrested, police said.
Austin Robert Drummond, 28, was arrested in Jackson by Tennessee’s investigation office after a week’s human hunt, according to the Jackson Police Department, Tennessee.
During a press conference on Tuesday afternoon, officials in charge of enforcing the law said Drummond was captured after multiple residents of the community saw him and called 911.
Austin Robert Drummond, the suspect in a quadruple homicide in Tennessee, is shown in this image shortly after his arrest, on August 5, 2025, in Jackson, Tenn.
Tennessee Research Office
“This is a perfect example of police and community cooperation,” David Rausch, director of the Tennessee Investigation Office.
Drummond, who had been considered armed and dangerous, is the main suspect in the murders of July 29 by Cortney Rose, 38; Rose’s children, Adrianna Williams, 20, and Braydon Williams, 15; and Adrianna Williams’s boyfriend, James “Michael”, 21, according to the authorities and the family.
The victims were found along a road in Lake County, in the northwest of Tennessee, authorities said. On the same day, Wilson and Williams baby stayed in a car seat in a “front courtyard of a random individual” in the nearby Dyer County, according to Dyer County Sheriff’s office.
The authorities said Drummond knew the victims through his girlfriend, who was the daughter of Rose and Sister of Adrianna and Braydon Williams.
A reason for murders remains under investigation.
During a press conference on Tuesday afternoon, officials in charge of enforcing the law said Drummond was captured after multiple residents of the community saw him in Jackson around 8 am and called 911.
“This is a perfect example of police and community cooperation,” said David Rausch, director of the Tennessee Investigation Office.
The Tennessee Research Office published this image in the search for Austin Robert Drummond, which is sought in relation to a quadruple homicide in Tiptonville, TN.
Tennessee Research Office
Jackson’s chief, Thom Corley, said the residents saw Drummond around 8 in the morning on Tuesday near a vacant construction researcher believe that the suspect had been hidden. He said that the officers rushed to the area as 911 entered, including one at 8:57 am that helped officers identify Drummond’s location in the forest near the vacancy.
Corley said the officers surrounded the area and put Drummond in custody at 9:05 am
“Today we find some peace knowing that the suspect is no longer a threat,” said Corley.
Corley presented the three officers at the press conference that captured Drummond, saying: “They were in the right place and acted immediately and arrested Drummond.”
“It was really the community that really broke this for us,” Rausch said.
Rausch said Drummond was disarmed at the time of his arrest, but since then the police have recovered several firearms. Rausch said the police will analyze weapons to determine whether they were used in homicides.
Drummond was captured in a wooded area of Jackson just one day after the police released an image of him taken on Sunday by a home security camera, police said.
At the time he was arrested, a reward of up to $ 30,000 for information that led Drummond’s arrest was offered.
Rausch said the reward money will probably be shared by those whose calls to 911 led to the capture of Drummond.
Drummond faces four first -degree murder positions, an aggravated kidnapping charge, four charges of crime in possession of a firearm and a position of possession of a firearm during the commission of a serious crime, according to the Tennessee investigation office.
During the search for Drummond, the police arrested four people accused of being accessories after the fact of homicides.
