( CNN ) -- Three teenagers and a 4-year-old were among the eight deaths in a Virginia shooting , state police said Wednesday . Christopher Speight , 39 , is being held without bond at the Blue Ridge Regional Jail in Lynchburg , Virginia , after being charged with a single count of first degree murder , police said , adding that further charges are pending . Speight surrendered peacefully early Wednesday morning after an overnight manhunt left him hiding in the woods surrounded by a several-square-mile perimeter set up by authorities , Appomattox County Sheriff O. Wilson Staples said . Speight was wearing a bulletproof vest but had no weapons when he surrendered , Staples said . State police identified the victims of Tuesday 's shooting as Ronald I. Scruggs II , 16 ; Emily A. Quarles , 15 ; Karen Quarles , 43 ; Jonathan L. Quarles , 43 ; Dwayne S. Sipe , 38 ; Lauralee Sipe , 38 ; Joshua Sipe , 4 ; and Morgan L. Dobyns , 15 . All were from Appomattox except Scruggs , who was from Dillwyn , about 25 miles away . Police did not say how the victims were related nor did they describe a motive for the shootings . Earlier , they said that Speight lived at the Appomattox home where seven of the eight were found , that he co-owns it and adjoining land and that he was acquainted with all the victims . Police were alerted to the incident Tuesday after noon when a person was discovered badly wounded in the middle of Route 703 . That person later died at a hospital . When police arrived at the scene they heard gunshots , authorities said . Authorities established a perimeter around the area , including dogs and helicopters . One of the helicopters was hit at least four times by bullets but `` was able to make an emergency landing in a field near the scene , '' state police said . A search turned up the remaining seven bodies in and around the home , which is about 75 miles southwest of Richmond , Virginia 's capital . On Wednesday , a search of the home turned up explosive devices , Molinar said . He said authorities were safely detonating the devices but he did not describe them .
Background : Suspect lived at the same home where seven of the eight bodies were found . Christopher Speight , 19 , wearing bulletproof vest when he turned himself in , sheriff says . Police say suspect shot and hit helicopter , which required emergency landing .