The 16-year-old boy suspected of killing three members of his family in Kentucky before dying in a shootout Saturday with Baltimore County police had traveled to New Jersey before he got to Maryland, police in his home state said Monday.
Maj. Rob Jones, public information officer for the Corbin, Ky., Police Department, said Jason Hendrix used a credit card in New Jersey before he died in the shootout.
"We still don't know why he was in New Jersey," Jones said, adding that he did not have other details of the route Hendrix took from his hometown of Corbin to the Baltimore area.
After a high-speed pursuit on Saturday, Baltimore County police, say gunfire came from his vehicle, wounding one officer. Six officers then opened fire on Hendrix, and he was pronounced dead at the scene, near the Hyde Park Station shopping center in Essex.
Baltimore County police released no new information on the shooting on Monday. The names of the six officers who opened fire on Hendrix could be released as early as Tuesday, a county police spokesman has said.
Hendrix is suspected of killing his mother, Sarah, father, Kevin, and younger sister, Grace, on Wednesday, allegedly shooting them multiple times in their home before fleeing in his parents' car.
Corbin Police Chief David Campbell said Hendrix was carrying a 9 mm semiautomatic handgun, two .38-caliber pistols, a double-barreled shotgun and a backpack full of ammunition, according to the Lexington Herald-Leader.
Three days later, Hendrix led Baltimore-area police on a chase before crashing his Honda Pilot into another vehicle at Route 702 and Hyde Park Road in Essex. The pursuit started Saturday morning when state troopers tried to stop him for speeding near the Maryland House Travel Plaza aon Interstate 95 in Harford County.
The Rev. Drew Mahan, of Forward Community Church in Corbin said has known the Hendrix family for several years and does not believe Jason Hendrix had any connections to Maryland.
Detectives were interviewing other relatives Monday, Jones said. Computer equipment from the home was being taken to a Kentucky State Police crime lab.
"It's still early for us" in the investigation, Jones said.
The Associated Press contributed to this article.
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