Police find suspect in Montana triple slaying to Washington

(AP) — A man accused of killing three people he was living with in a tiny Montana town was arrested early Friday after authorities tracked him to Washington state.

Robert James LeCou, 39, faces three counts of deliberate homicide in the shooting deaths of two women and one man, whose bodies were discovered in a home in the tight-knit town of Belfry, just north of the Wyoming border.

Authorities followed leads to an incorporated Washington community more than eight hours away and took LeCou into custody in a house just outside Spokane, Montana Department of Justice spokesman John Barnes said.

Sheriff's deputies went into the house and found one woman's body sitting on a couch with gunshot wounds to her head, according to court documents Nixon filed Friday.

Sheriff's officials have declined to identify the victims until their families are notified and autopsies are conducted.

In 2000, LeCou was accused in the beating death of a homeless man in Fort Worth, Texas.