CHESAPEAKE, Va. — The Chesapeake Police Department said a man wanted for killing a woman inside a home Monday was in custody after deputies in North Carolina picked him up.
Police said Ben Matthew Wynkoop, 46, is charged with First-degree Murder and Use of a Firearm in the Commission of a Felony.
Officers said they went to a home in the 600 block of Willow Oak Dr. after they received a call about a domestic dispute. When officers got to the house in the Fentress area of the city, they saw a woman dead just inside the home. Because of that, the police department said they initiated a tactical situation until investigators could find everyone who may have been connected to the original incident to which they responded. Members of the SWAT team cleared the house.
The woman has been identified as Kathryn Kathleen Dean, 44. She lived in the home, and she was Wynkoop's estranged wife.
After asking the public to be on the lookout for Wynkoop, police said late Monday afternoon that deputies with the Currituck County Sheriff's Office had taken him into custody.
Master Police Officer Leo Kosinski, spokesman for the Chesapeake Police Department, said that deputies arrested Wynkoop during a traffic stop shortly before 5 p.m. Soon after that, police detectives were on their way to Currituck County for follow-up investigation.
If you have any information about the case, you still can contact police by calling the Crime Line at 1-888-LOCK-U-UP or by submitting an anonymous online tip by clicking here.