Updated: Suspecte arrested in Madison Co. triple homicide

An update to a triple homicide in Madison Co.

Police arrested 23-year-old Rashad Riddick in connection with a triple homicide.

Riddick was arrested in the Newport News area Sunday night without incident.

The three victims were found yesterday morning.


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Riddick has been charged with three counts of capital murder.

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MADISON, Va. (AP) -- Authorities have released the names of three people found dead at a central Virginia home.

The Madison County sheriff's office on Sunday identified the victims as 55-year-old James Clark Jackson, 53-year-old Karen Lee Jackson and 26-year-old Chante Latrice Davis.

The sheriff's office didn't say in a news release how the victims were related or how they died.

Authorities were called to the home Saturday morning and officers found a man lying in the yard on Forest Drive.

Two other bodies were found inside the home. All had trauma to their upper bodies.

The release said authorities are looking for someone who left in a pickup truck that went missing from the scene.

The Madison County seat is about 90 miles southwest of Washington, D.C.

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MADISON, Va. (AP) -- Madison County authorities are investigating the shooting deaths of three family members at their home.

Sheriff Erik Weaver tells WVIR-TV that his office received a call shortly before 9:30 a.m. Saturday and officers subsequently found a male victim lying in the yard on Forest Drive.

Three people were found shot to death in the home, according to WVIR-TV.

State police dispatchers tell the station that they're searching for a 23-year-old male in connection with the shootings.

He is believed to be driving a 2004 copper-colored pickup truck.