Arjun Aravind, 17, a student at Acton-Boxborough Regional High School, was arrested after police found him inside his mother’s Honda Accord in nearby Wayland. An Indian-origin teenager has been charged with killing his mother and younger brother at their family home in Acton, Massachusetts, following an overnight manhunt that ended early Wednesday morning.
Police cite internet and ChatGPT searches
Police said Aravind was not at the house when officers arrived and that his mother’s Honda Accord was also missing. “The subsequent investigation indicates that Arjun (Aravind) had recently been demonstrating concerning behaviour, including using the internet and ChatGPT to make searches for theoretical ideas or fantasies regarding killing his family,” the Middlesex County District Attorney’s Office said. Early Wednesday, police responding to an unrelated alarm at a car park in Wayland located the Honda Accord with Aravind inside. He was arrested without incident.
Bodies found inside family home
The killings took place on Tuesday at the family’s home on Martha Lane, around 48 kilometres west of Boston, according to Middlesex District Attorney Marian Ryan and Acton Police Chief Douglas Sturniolo. The deaths came to light shortly after 6.30 pm, when a tutor arrived at the house for a scheduled appointment but could not enter.
He faces two counts of murder, along with charges of assault and battery on a household or family member, assault and battery, unauthorised use of a motor vehicle, and theft of a motor vehicle, according to an NDTV report. She contacted Aravind’s father, who was also unable to reach his family and then asked Acton Police to carry out a welfare check.
