Others believed to be involved in slayings

Court document says man arrested needed assistance.

WASHINGTON — More than one person likely was involved in the slayings of four people who were held captive inside a Washington, D.C., mansion and then killed after $40,000 was delivered last week, authorities revealed Friday.

Daron Dylon Wint, a welder with a criminal record of assaults who once worked for the mansion’s owner, has been charged with murder.

But authorities said they believe he did not act alone: A court document made public Friday said the crimes “required the presence and assistance of more than one person.”

Savvas Savopoulos, 46; his wife Amy, 47, and their housekeeper Veralicia Figueroa, 57, died from “blunt force and sharp force trauma,” authorities said, and the couple’s 10-year-old son, Philip, died of “thermal and sharp force injuries.”

All four bodies were found by firefighters who came to the house after it was set ablaze.

A fugitive task force arrested Wint late Thursday night, a week after the attack on the family. Wint had previously worked for Savopoulos’ company, American Iron Works, which supplies materials for major construction projects in downtown Washington.

Wint’s DNA was found on the crust of a partially-eaten pepperoni pizza, one of two that were ordered on the evening of May 13 while the Savopolouses and their housekeeper were “being held against their will,” the document said.

A woman believed to be Amy Savopoulos ordered the pizzas and paid for them with a credit card over the phone, telling the delivery person to leave them on the front porch and ring the bell, because she was “nursing her sick child,” the document says.

The document says authorities believe “Wint and others” held the group captive until $40,000 was delivered to the home by an employee of Savopoulos. The family was then killed and the house set on fire, the document says.

The task force took two other men and three women who were with Wint into custody during his arrest, but none was immediately charged with any crime.

U.S. marshals and police had tracked Wint to New York and back before they spotted him in the parking lot of a Howard Johnson Express Inn in College Park, Md.