KNOB NOSTER, Mo. (AP) — A Missouri sheriff says there’s a “huge amount of relief” in the community, after authorities shot and killed a man who’d been accused in the shooting death of his former girlfriend and her teenage son.

James Horn was killed at a state wildlife area in western Missouri — two days after Sandra Kay Sutton and her 17-year-old son were found dead at a relative’s home.

Horn had been charged last month with kidnapping the woman — after she told police he had kept her in a wooden crate, off-and-on, for months at their home. But police didn’t have him in custody.

Horn had past convictions for kidnapping and abductions.