A Georgia father who was accused of shooting and killing his wife in September was caught on Tuesday, according to the Clayton County Sheriff's Office.
Ikuko Thurman, the 42-year-old husband of victim, 47-year-old Livingston Jett, allegedly shot the mother-of-three on September 9 in Lovejoy, Georgia, according to a press release.
Authorities have said on the day of the shooting, Thurman had blocked in Jett's vehicle and approached her on foot before firing multiple shots into the car, striking her and causing her death.
Clayton County Chief Deputy Levon Allen praised the work of the men and women in the Lovejoy Police Department and the U.S. Marshal Service for their work in tracking down Thurman.
Allen had made Thurman's capture a priority following the incident and ordered he be #1 on his Top 10 Most Wanted List.
At the initial incident, Jett's family spoke to local media and expressed their anguish and frustration at Thurman's disappearance.
"This man really just tore my whole family apart," Jett's oldest son, Johnny Tsitakis said, according to a Fox 5 report.
"I never thought he'll do something like this ... he plotted this. He sat back and he murdered my mama," he added.
Jett's grandmother also said:" I just want to ask Ko ...'Why would you take her from this family that loved her so much ... why would you take her from us like that.
Her brother, Kenneth Causey also weighed in and said: "My sister was the best ... she'd never hurt anybody she didn't even have a criminal record." Before the arrest, the family offered a $2,000 reward to anyone with information.
Thurman has yet to be charged with any crime, and the case is ongoing.
Among couple types, annual rates of male-on-female spousal homicide ranged from 0.95 to 8.76 per 100,000 couples, according to a 2015 paper dealing with spousal homicide rates by racial composition of marriage.
For female-on-male spousal homicide, this range was 0.13 to 2.29.
Newsweek has contacted the Lovejoy Police Department for comment.
Last month in Florida police arrested a man for a similar incident, where he was alleged to have shot his wife dead in front of their crying daughter.
Oscar Edmundo Marin Martinez, 42, allegedly shot his wife seven times in the head and neck while they were sitting in the front seats of a pickup truck in a parking lot at 12490 Southwest 5th Street, just before midnight on October 15.
The shooting occurred as their five-year-old daughter sat crying in the back seat, per a Davie police report obtained by NBC 6.
When police arrived, they found the daughter crying in the back seat before officers located a silver pistol on the floorboard between the front seats. Officers also found Martinez's wife was holding a knife.
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