Michael Boysen had left prison the same day he killed the senior couple

Mar 13, 2013 08:18 GMT  ·  By

Police have found a man suspected of slaying his grandparents in a motel in Lincoln City, Oregon. He has been apprehended following a standoff that kept police at his doorstep for hours.

Michael Boysen is charged with killing the elderly couple in Washington, after having them pick him up from prison in Monroe Correctional Facility in Washington on Friday, March 8.

They helped him get an ID card and held a party for his coming home, the Oregonian writes. The next day, they were found dead of unspecified causes by Boysen's mother.

A manhunt was launched in search for the man who killed Robert Taylor, 82, and Norma Taylor, 80.

Boysen, who served time on a robbery charge, possibly ran off with his grandparents' 2001 Chrysler 300. There is no information about the vehicle being recovered at the scene.

A property manager at the motel who had seen him on TV alerted Lincoln City police about the suspect staying at the WestShore OceanFront Suites.

According to motel owner Kent Landers, Boysen used his own name to check in on Monday, March 11.

Police evacuated patrons in ten rooms at around 11 a.m. and arranged for temporary housing at Oregon Coast Community College at Southeast High School Drive for them.

Residents of six homes in the area were also sent away to the College as officers tried to persuade the fugitive to give himself in.

As Boysen refused to surrender, officers from the Lincoln City Police Department and the Lincoln County Sheriff's Office were forced to break down the door to his room and remove him from the premises.

"We removed the front door for him to show him which way we wanted him to come out. [...] He chose not to," police chief Keith Kilian describes.