The sound of helicopters overhead could only mean one thing for residents off Old Agua Fría Road just south of Interstate 25.

"I could hear them hovering over my house, over this whole neighborhood," Mary Gerlach said. "I was calling neighbors, telling them to go inside and lock the doors because I'm sure they're looking for that murderer."

Gerlach lives just over a half-mile from where Arthur "Arturo" Anaya, the area resident accused of the fatal shootings earlier this week of 16-year-old Austin Urban and 51-year-old Theresa Vigil, was taken into custody Friday afternoon.

After a four-day manhunt, including air and ground searches, failed to turn up any sign of Anaya, Santa Fe County sheriff's deputies received a tip at 2:42 p.m. Friday concerning a motorcycle parked outside a mobile home. By 4:45 p.m., Anaya, 54, was in handcuffs.

Maj. Ken Johnson of the Sheriff's Office said deputies who first arrived at the scene saw that someone had broken into the mobile home, located on an elderly woman's property just off a dead-end dirt road. Deputies were entering the mobile home when they saw Anaya was inside; they retreated and secured the perimeter, he said. A heavily armed SWAT was called in along with members of other law-enforcement agencies.

Anaya fired one shot during the incident, Johnson said, although the spokesman wasn't sure whether the shot was aimed at officers. Anaya remained inside the mobile home during some negotiations with officers and called local defense lawyer Tom Clark before, ultimately, according to Johnson, "he cooperated and complied with their orders and ended up surrendering."

Clark said later, "He asked me what he should do and I told him to surrender himself to police and do what they say and I'd be there waiting for him at the jail. He called our offices and we will be representing him in this matter and I can tell you he has made no statements to police about any of this."

An arrest warrant issued Tuesday states a telephone argument preceded Monday's shootings as Anaya reportedly demanded rent money from Vigil, who told him she couldn't pay until Friday. After the phone call, Anaya allegedly carried a black handgun from his house to the mobile home Vigil occupied on his property and began arguing with her. At one point, he reportedly punched both Theresa Vigil and her 17-year-old daughter, Natalie Vigil, in the face.

When the daughter's boyfriend, Urban, walked out of a back bedroom and confronted Anaya, the warrant states, Urban and Anaya got into a fight and Urban was shot in the mouth. Theresa Vigil, who had fallen on the floor after being punched, then stood up and was shot in the forehead, the document states.

After the shooting, according to court records, Anaya reportedly told Natalie Vigil to put the bodies of her mother and boyfriend in the trunk of her car.

When she argued that they were still alive, the document states, Anaya threatened to shoot her, too, if she told anyone about what had happened. At one point, he reportedly took Natalie Vigil's cellphone so she couldn't call or send text messages to anyone.

Natalie Vigil and another teenage boy in the home eventually persuaded Anaya to give her the keys to her car so she could take her mother to the hospital. Urban was left at the scene.

A neighbor of Anaya's said Monday that he didn't think Anaya would go far after the shooting since he "knew the terrain like the back of his hand."

The mobile home where Anaya was found Friday is just over a mile from his own property.

Residents within a mile of the hiding place were notified to evacuate by deputies who went door-to-door around 3:30 p.m. One of the evacuees was Leigh Seikel, along with her dog, Koda.

Seikel was waiting for a handyman, Lou Chavez, to come fix her sink and some other appliances when she got a call from Chavez that the neighborhood was blockaded by police.

"I was just looking forward to come do an afternoon of work," Chavez said as he stood on the road's dusty shoulder as police cars sped past, toward the scene.

Sheriff's deputies established their command post in Seikel's front yard, about a quarter-of-a-mile from Anaya. Seeing all of this activity, Seikel knew what was happening. "Immediately I thought it was him," Seikel said as she and Koda were leaving the area.

An hour later, Anaya, wearing a dark-green shirt and black pants, was transported in a sheriff's squad car to jail.

Anaya, a convicted felon with a criminal history stretching over 25 years, was being held in connection with two counts of murder.

For local residents, including Gerlach and Seikel, Anaya's arrest brings a sense of peace.

"It's a huge relief," Gerlach said. "I'm not the kind of person that gets to be afraid, but I didn't want to even go outside to get the mail today."

The family of Urban, the slain 16-year-old, was happy to hear Anaya is in custody and had some very harsh words for him when speaking Friday night with KOAT-TV.

"We hope he rots in prison for the rest of his life and we hope he doesn't take his own life because we want him to suffer," said Joshua Vigil, the longtime boyfriend of Angela Urban, Austin Urban's mother.

— Digital News Editor Geoff Grammer contributed to this article.

Contact Nico Roesler at 986-3089 or nroesler@sfnewmexican.com