SLAYING SUSPECT ARRESTED MOTHER, DAUGHTER WERE SHOT DEAD.

Byline: GIDEON RUBIN Staff Writer

LANCASTER -- A man suspected in a double-homicide in Lancaster late last year was arrested Thursday morning in Tucson, Ariz., the U.S. Marshals Service said Friday.

Operating on a tip from from the marshals' fugitive task force, Tucson police arrested Christopher Anthony Brown on a traffic stop.

He was wanted in the shooting deaths of Christine Bacon, 41, of Lancaster, and her daughter Crystal Danielle Dawkins, an 18-year-old Columbia, S.C., woman, who were discovered Dec. 18 in Bacon's Price Lane home.

Brown, 38, was Bacon's boyfriend.

Brown was wanted in Pima County, Ariz., under the alias Harry Jannis for conspiracy to possess and transport marijuana, officials said.

Los Angeles County sheriff's investigators seeking information on Brown's whereabouts received information from the marshals office that Brown likely was in Tucson.

Tucson police summoned to surveil a home he was thought to be living in spotted a man about 9 a.m. Thursday matching his description. Brown was in a minivan with no license plates, speeding and driving erratically when he was stopped at 9:45 a.m., according to the police report.

Brown is in a Pima County jail awaiting extradition to Los Angeles County.

Although several neighbors said they believed the homicides were the result of a domestic dispute, many remained unsettled because of the gruesome nature of the crimes.

``It's a relief,'' said Kerrie Kirkbride, a neighbor of the victims. ``I think the whole neighborhood will appreciate the fact that there is some closure on this.''

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