Suspect in killings of three elderly men arrested in cave on Hawaii’s Big Island

Authorities in Hawaii have arrested a man who they say is linked to three killings, following an extensive manhunt across theBig Island. Officials announced that they had taken Jacob Daniel Baker, 36, into custody on Thursday afternoon after receiving information that led to his capture. The development came after law enforcement found the bodies of three elderly men earlier in the week. “First and foremost, I want to thank our community,” Reed Mahuna, the chief of the Hawaii police department, said during a press conference. “It was a citizen that saw something, said something and helped bring this manhunt to a safe conclusion.” On Tuesday, the department had reported it was investigating two “separate suspicious deaths” that occurred in close proximity to one another. The first victim was Robert Shine, 69, whom police found dead at a residence late on Monday evening. Patrol officers responding to a call nearby on Tuesday afternoon found a 79-year-old man dead with “suspicious injuries”. Later that evening, patrol officers responded to a home 19 miles (31km) away from the other victims where they found John Carse, 69, dead. By Wednesday, police announced they were looking for Baker, who they said was a suspect in the three homicides and was considered “armed and extremely dangerous”. …