( CNN ) -- A 22-year-old man wanted in the shooting deaths of 9-year-old Alabama twins and their elderly babysitter was arrested Saturday morning , authorities said . Deandra Marquis Lee was captured around 11 a.m. in Selma , the Alabama Bureau of Investigation announced . Prior to his arrest , authorities converged on an apartment complex near the Vaughan Regional Medical Center and evacuated residents from his building . Efforts to `` initiate communication '' with people inside the apartment were unsuccessful , the state investigative bureau said in a news release . Authorities then `` made entry into the apartment ( and ) immediately took Lee into custody . '' He is charged with three counts of murder in the deaths of the twins and their 73-year-old caregiver , Jack Mac Girdner . The bodies of Girdner and the twins , Jordan and Taylor Dejerinett , were found Tuesday afternoon on a dirt road near Hayneville , southwest of Montgomery , state investigators said . The children and Girdner , according to the bureau investigators , were last seen Sunday when the twins ' mother left them in the care of the babysitter . When the twins ' mother returned later that night to pick them up from the suburban Montgomery home of the babysitter , the children and Girdner were missing , investigators said , along with Girdner 's car , a 1988 Mercedes-Benz . Authorities did not release a possible motive in the killings , though they confirmed the three victims were shot . State investigators also did not say what evidence connected Lee to the case . Girdner 's car was found -- with its doors removed -- Thursday in Minter , they said . Lee , according to state investigators , has a history of trouble with the law . In 2011 , he was acquitted of murder in a 2008 shooting that prosecutors say was gang related . Before Sunday , Lee was out on bond following January 2012 charges in Dallas County that he assaulted a police officer and was in possession of gun with an altered ID number , state investigators said . According to court records , Lee was also arrested on a third-degree robbery charge and released on $ 10,000 bond in Lowndes County in February 2012 for allegedly stealing a Honda Accord in 2011 .
NEW : Authorities evacuated a Selma apartment building before detaining Lee . NEW : He is charged with three counts of murder . Police say the bodies of the twins and their babysitter were found on a dirt road . The car belonging to babysitter , Jack Mac Girdner , 73 , was found Thursday .