Episcopal Priest Israel Ahimbisibwe, his wife, Dorcus, and their five-year-old son, Jay, were all found dead in their west Houston home Monday. On Wednesday morning, investigators arrested Isaac Tiharihondi without incident in Mississippi and charged him with two counts of capital murder.
Court records say the couple planned to confront their 19-year-old son on the day they were murdered. A Houston police investigator said in an affidavit that Tiharihondi told friends and family that he had joined the Marines and was leaving at the end of the month.
But according to the investigator, the parents didn't believe him and planned to confront him on Tuesday, January 29, the day police believe they, along with their 5-year-old son, were murdered.
According to HPD, representatives of the U.S. Marine Corps. said they had no record of the suspect ever enlisting in the Marines.
Friends who saw the suspect after the murders told police that the suspect appeared to be normal and not nervous, even going to lunch with a friend and making what police believe was a "fake" phone call to his mother, who was dead.
The bodies of Tiharhondi's parents and 5-year-old brother were eventually found February 2. Police say they were killed with a hammer, baseball bat, lamp and kitchen knife.
Houston police and the FBI tracked Tiharihondi to New Orleans and Mississippi, where he was arrested and detained in the Hinds County Jail in Raymond, Mississippi.
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