AUSTIN, Texas – A man in connection with an AMBER Alert for three missing Austin children and a double homicide in Southeast Austin has been taken into custody, Austin police said.

Austin police said 31-year-old Sherles Gregorio Machado-Hernandez was taken into custody Monday evening in the 900 block of Fairfield Drive in North Central Austin.

He is booked into the Travis County Jail.

Austin police said officers responded to a double homicide in the 1800 block of Burton Drive on Oct. 14 around 7:38 a.m.

“APD officers responded to the 1800 block of Burton Drive regarding a report of a shooting,” said Corporal Jose Mendez of the Austin Police Department.

When officers arrived, they found two people, a man and a woman, dead from gunshot wounds.

Sherles Machado Hernández, 31

“When APD officers arrived on scene, they found in fact two deceased individuals, a man and a woman with apparent gunshot wounds,” Mendez said.

Police said when they found the bodies, they had been there for quite some time at the apartment complex on Burton Drive, near Woodland Avenue.

A white GMC was towed, with the driver’s side window glass visibly shattered.

The dead woman’s children, Ninel Anseume Sayas, 10, Abraham Anseume, 4, and Elsi Anseume, 2, were missing and an AMBER Alert was issued Monday afternoon. A few hours later the children were found safe.

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There was no sign of a weapon at the scene and the shooter was identified as Sherles Machado Hernandez, 31.

Hernandez was also the suspect in connection with the kidnapped children in Austin.

Police are asking those with information to call 512-477-3588 or CrimeStoppers at 512-472-TIPS (8477).