Midday Roundup: Police nab suspect in Washington family's murder

Under arrest. Authorities have arrested a suspect in the quadruple homicide of a Washington, D.C., family and their housekeeper. Daron Dylon Wint is a welder who once worked for 46-year-old Savvas Savopoulos. Police have not commented on the man’s possible motive in killing Savopoulos; his wife, Amy; their son, Philip; and housekeeper Veralicia Figueroa. Their bodied were found in their burned mansion May 14. Officers this week tracked Wint through New York City to College Park, Md., where they arrested him Thursday night outside a motel.

Indicted. A grand jury indicted six Baltimore police officers Thursday in the death of Freddie Gray, who received a fatal spinal cord injury in police custody. The indictment confirms most of the charges that State’s Attorney Marilyn Mosby filed against the officers May 1. The grand jury did not indict them on charges of false imprisonment that stemmed from the kind of knife Gray carried at the time of his arrest. Officers said he carried an illegal switchblade, but it turned out to be a legal folding knife. To get a conviction for false imprisonment, the prosecution would have to prove the officers knew the knife was legal and arrested Gray anyway. The grand jury also added charges of reckless endangerment to each of the officers’ indictments.

Crowded stage. Sixteen Republicans have either declared a White House bid or are formally exploring one. The more the merrier, some say, but there is one problem: How do you get 16 people on a debate stage at once? Apparently, you don’t. Fox News, which will host the first GOP debate Aug. 6, is limiting the field to the 10 highest-ranking candidates by average of major polls. The rules will squeeze out a number of highly credible candidates, including sitting governors like Louisiana’s Bobby Jindal and Ohio’s John Kasich, as well Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., and the only woman in the GOP field, former Hewlett Packard CEO Carly Fiorina. CNN will host a two-part Republican debate in September with two sets of candidates—the top 10 in one group and everyone else in the other.

Down to the wire. Today is the Senate’s last chance to act on the National Security Agency’s controversial data collection program before legislation authorizing it expires June 1. The House has already voted not to allow the bulk collection of America’s’ telephone data to continue, but the measure does not have strong support in the Senate. The House bill would still allow the NSA to access phone data on a case-by-case basis with a search warrant. Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., said he plans to allow a vote on the House bill and on an extension of the current authorizing legislation in case the House bill doesn’t pass. That way, the NSA could maintain its program while Congress works out a compromise. Today is supposed to be the last day of congressional business before a weeklong recess.

WORLD Radio’s Kent Covington and The Associated Press contributed to this report.