LAGRANGE, Ga. (AP) - Authorities say a west Georgia man accused in the deaths of his wife and four others has been arrested.

Troup County, Georgia, Sheriff James Woodruff says 26-year-old Thomas Lee was arrested Monday afternoon by police at a bus station in Tupelo, Mississippi.

Sheriff's officials have said Lee is suspected in the deaths of his wife, her daughter, her parents and a family friend who had been living with them in LaGrange - roughly 80 miles southwest of Atlanta and just east of the Alabama state line.