Winter Haven, Florida - Detectives with the Polk County Sheriff's Office have arrested a murder suspect from Mississippi. He's accused of shooting a priest in the head with the priest's .380 caliber semi-automatic pistol on Sunday.

31-year-old Jeremy Wayne Manieri was arrested early Tuesday morning by Polk deputies. They found him at a Days Inn Hotel located at 20390 U.S. Highway 27 in Clermont.

Manieri was wanted by Waveland, Mississippi Police for the murder of Edward Everitt, a 70-year-old priest from Hammond, Louisiana.

Manieri worked as the maintenance man at the Dominican Retreat House in Waveland, which is where the body of Father Everitt was found around 4:30 p.m. on Monday by a caretaker at the house, according to police.

Sheriff Grady Judd says Manieri and Father Everitt had known each other for about two weeks, because Everitt was talking to Manieri about doing some type of construction work for him. Sheriff Judd says the two attended morning Mass together on Sunday and went to lunch together.

Later that evening, they got into some type of disagreement and that's when the priest was shot twice.

Sheriff Judd says, "Our suspect found a firearm belonging to the priest and shot him with it."

Father Everitt was a priest at the Holy Ghost Catholic Church in Hammond and Our Lady of Pompeii Catholic Church in Tickfaw.

Waveland Police alerted the Polk County Sheriff's Office when the priest's stolen car OnStar security system located the area in which they believed Manieri had traveled to.

Judd says they believed Manieri was armed and dangerous and so SWAT team members surrounded the Days Inn hotel and, just when they were going to go in after him, he walked out of the hotel room. No one was hurt.

Manieri was arrested and charged with murder.

He wasn't alone, though. According to the sheriff, Manieri brought his ex-wife, her 10-year-old son and the couple's 5-year-old daughter along.

Judd says, "The suspect told his ex-wife he was working on an oil rig and when he got paid, they were going to come to Florida and take the kids to Disney."

He says Manieri had even purchased 3-day passes for the theme park.

Judd says they recovered the priest's car with the gun inside of it. Inside the hotel room, he says they found Father Everitt's wallet with all of the identification removed, except for one business card belonging to Father Everitt and some cash.

The sheriff adds, "Quite frankly, he left a trail of evidence that a blind man could have followed."

Manieri is a sex offender and, in 2006, he was convicted for having sex with a child under the age of 12.

Bishop Robert Muench issued a statement Tuesday morning on the priest's death:

"I express my utter shock and profound mourning over the news of the murder of Father Edward Everitt, revered pastor of Holy Ghost and Our Lady of Pompeii Churches. This tragic loss of Father Ed's life leaves a deeply-felt void in all our lives."

Tuesday evening they held a candlelight vigil for Father Everitt.

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