{"id":317473,"date":"2026-08-10T02:22:08","date_gmt":"2026-08-10T02:22:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/317473\/"},"modified":"2026-08-10T02:22:08","modified_gmt":"2026-08-10T02:22:08","slug":"n-y-police-arrest-man-accused-of-killing-father-setting-home-ablaze","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/317473\/","title":{"rendered":"N.Y. police arrest man accused of killing father, setting home ablaze"},"content":{"rendered":"

Aug. 9 (UPI) — New York State Police early Sunday said a 32-year-old man accused of killing his father and then setting fire to the man’s home has been taken into custody, ending a three-day manhunt.<\/p>\n

Little information about the arrest of Thomas David Ryan has been made public. New York State Police said in an early Sunday statement<\/a> that he as been taken into police custody and the active search in the Gilboa area of Schoharie County has concluded.\n<\/p>\n

“The New York State Police thanks the public and our law enforcement partners for their assistance,” it said. <\/p>\n

Authorities were searching for Thomas of Greenville, N.Y., from around 7:30 p.m. EDT Thursday, when state police responded to reports of a structure fire at a residence on Greenville Turnpike in Greenville, located about 26 miles southwest of Albany.<\/p>\n

After the fire was extinguished, a body, identified over the weekend as Robert Ryan, the 70-year-old father of Thomas, was located within the structure, New York State Police said in a statement<\/a>, adding that a preliminary investigation revealed that the fire had been deliberately set.\n<\/p>\n

Authorities said they believed Thomas was driving a 2016 gray Toyota Prius. New York State Police described him as “armed and dangerous.”<\/p>\n

They said he did not live with his father at the time of the homicide and was living a “transient lifestyle,” staying at shelters throughout the state.<\/p>\n

A search of various counties was conducted and members of the public with information on Thomas’ whereabouts were asked to come forward.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Aug. 9 (UPI) — New York State Police early Sunday said a 32-year-old man accused of killing his…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":317474,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[6442,9,11,10,49,51,50,27,4107],"class_list":["post-317473","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york","tag-law-and-crime","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-headlines","tag-new-york-news","tag-new-york-state","tag-new-york-state-headlines","tag-new-york-state-news","tag-top-stories","tag-u-s"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/317473","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=317473"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/317473\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/317474"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=317473"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=317473"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=317473"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}