Anthony Lord shot 5 and beat 1 before his capture. Two have died and the others are being treated, state police say. pic.twitter.com/sM1iTNFy5C

— Nok-Noi Ricker (@NokNoiBDN) July 17, 2015

Police: Anthony Lord shot 5 people, killing two. Another man was beaten. He's charged with two counts of murder. pic.twitter.com/sowY5ZeRI9

— CBS 13 News (@WGME) July 17, 2015

State police say Lord knew some of the victims but those relationships are being looked into @WGME

— Katie Sampson (@KatieWGME) July 17, 2015

Lord is charged with two counts of murder, other charges expected @WGME

— Katie Sampson (@KatieWGME) July 17, 2015

State police say this is extremely rare @WGME

— Katie Sampson (@KatieWGME) July 17, 2015

Anthony Lord, of Crystal and Houlton, was taken into custody in Houlton at about 2:30 p.m. at the 77 North St. residence of Carl Lord Jr., who is believed to be his uncle. The arrest came after an intense manhunt involving multiple law enforcement agencies in northern Penobscot and southern Aroostook counties.

According an eyewitness of the arrest, Lord surrendered himself without incident.

State police said a woman who was being held hostage by Lord was released and was safe.

The four people were shot in Lee, Benedicta and Silver Ridge, state police said. Their identities and conditions were not immediately released.

Kim Keaton, an employee of the Cigaret Shopper located across the street from the Lord residence, said she first saw a female escorted from the residence. The woman was crying and placed inside a police cruiser.

“The cops were everywhere,” Keaton said. “He came out of the house with his hands in the air and stood in front of the garage. That was when the cops tackled him. Then we just saw police with big guns. There were probably 25 cops there. They did a really good job.”

Maine State Police are gathered at about 2:30 p.m. at 77 North Street, also known as U.S. Route 1, in Houlton where Anthony Lord, the suspect wanted in connection with the shooting of four people Friday morning in northern Maine, is believed to have been captured.

State Police confirm Anthony Lord, sought in connection with 4 shootings, is in custody. Woman held by him is safe. #Leemanhunt

— Michael Dowd (@mikedowdbdn) July 17, 2015

The Aroostook Medical Center went into lockdown at 9 a.m. because of the incident, with all exterior doors locked from the outside and additional security added to the emergency room entrance, Jason Parent, hospital spokesman, said just before noon Friday.

None of the injured were treated at the Presque Isle hospital, Parent said.

Messages left for Houlton Regional Hospital were not immediately returned, and a representative for Millinocket Regional Hospital declined to comment whether they were in lockdown, referring all calls to State Police, then hung up the phone.

In Hodgdon Friday morning, Tammy Kerekes planned to go to the lake for the day with her son and her friend’s son when the friend called to ask whether she heard a rumor the alleged shooter was in the area.

“I told her no, that I had not heard that, and I drove to the end of my road — the Catalina Road — and saw two U.S. border patrol agents there,” Kerekes told the Bangor Daily News. When she asked them about what she heard, officers told her the suspect has been spotted on the White Settlement Road in Hodgdon.

She also said one of the officers told her that if she were his wife, he would advise her to “stay home with the doors locked.”

After that advice, she said, she dropped her friend’s son off at his home and decided she would stay indoors with all doors and windows locked for the remainder of the day.

In Hodgdon Friday morning, Tammy Kerekes planned to go to the lake for the day with her son and her friend’s son when the friend called to ask whether she heard a rumor the alleged shooter was in the area.

“I told her no, that I had not heard that, and I drove to the end of my road — the Catalina Road — and saw two U.S. border patrol agents there,” Kerekes told the Bangor Daily News. When she asked them about what she heard, officers told her the suspect has been spotted on the White Settlement Road in Hodgdon.

She also said one of the officers told her that if she were his wife, he would advise her to “stay home with the doors locked.”

After that advice, she said, she dropped her friend’s son off at his home and decided she would stay indoors with all doors and windows locked for the remainder of the day.

Maine State Police also continue to investigate the death of Lord’s 6-month-old son, Larry Earl Lord, who died on May 7, two days after he was found unresponsive by his mother at her Katahdin Avenue home in Millinocket, Maine Department of Public Safety spokesman Stephen McCausland said.

The boy’s mother on May 5 called for an ambulance, which brought him to Millinocket Regional Hospital. A LifeFlight helicopter moved him to Eastern Maine Medical Center in Bangor, where he died two days later, McCausland said in June.

State police investigate all untimely infant deaths, suspicious or otherwise. McCausland said Friday he did not know whether the shootings had anything to do with the death of Lord’s son.

Anthony Lord is a lifetime registrant for three unlawful sexual contact crimes committed in Aroostook County involving a person under the age of 14. He was convicted of all three crimes in September 2004 and was sentenced in March 2005 to five years in prison with 18 months suspended, according to Maine Sex Offender registry. He also was sentenced to four years of probation after his release from prison.

Lord also has convictions for a domestic violence assault from January in Millinocket, when he was sentenced to 10 months with all but 45 days suspended, as well as drunken driving in 2008, trafficking in tobacco in a correctional facility from 2006 and a theft from 2003 that resulted in one year behind bars and an order to pay $6,877 in restitution.

His criminal record has two criminal threatening convictions from 1999 and 2002, an assault conviction from 2002, a probation violation from 2003 and a gross sexual assault in 2002 that was reduced to unlawful sexual contact.

Houlton Regional Hospital has taken “precautionary security measures,” including a lockdown that started at 11:30 a.m., according to Victoria Moody, director of human resources at the hospital.

Steven McDonald of Bangor stopped in Benedicta briefly Friday to meet with a friend and was surprised to hear about the violence.

“This is Aroostook County, so you don’t expect any kind of crime, really,” he said. “But I know there used to be a large sisterhood of Catholic nuns here. This is a peaceful, rural town.”

#leemanhunt police at the scene just announced that there will be a press conference at 1:30 p.m. At the Lincoln police station.

— Nick Sambides Jr. (@NickSam2BDN) July 17, 2015

Angela White of Smyrna said late Friday morning that police stopped her vehicle at a checkpoint on Route 11 in Sherman.

“I have never experienced anything like this in my life,” she said. “I am keeping my kids in the house and locking all the doors and windows.”

Armed police officers and agents with U.S. Customs and Border Protection were stopping and checking vehicles leaving the U.S. at the Houlton port of entry late Friday morning as the manhunt continued. Normally, cars heading into Canada only stop at the Canadian checkpoint on the way out.

A Customs and Border Protection helicopter also could be seen circling the greater Houlton area.