BENEDICTA — The suspect in a criminal rampage across several northern Maine communities that left two people dead showed no emotion and revealed no clues about his motive when he was arrested, the suspect’s uncle said Saturday.

Anthony Lord, 35, was arrested Friday after he beat a man, stole guns and a pickup truck, kidnapped a young woman and shot five people, killing two, Maine State Police said.

Lord was taken into custody at the home of his uncle, Carl Lord Jr., in Houlton. Carl Lord told The Associated Press that Anthony Lord’s mother and other family members gathered at his home Friday when they heard that his nephew was the suspect.

Carl Lord said he walked out of his house and saw Anthony Lord hugging his mother. Then the suspect pulled the magazine from the handgun he was holding, dropped the weapon in the vegetable garden and removed the bullets, then handed over a pocket knife, Carl Lord said.

“He didn’t have any emotion. He looked at me when he unloaded the gun like it was something that he was bound and determined to do,” Lord said. “When he dropped that gun, I just knew deep down that nobody else was in trouble. He didn’t want to harm anyone else.”

Another family member called police and Anthony Lord said nothing until he was being taken away, when he turned to his mother and told her he loved her, Carl Lord said. He said his nephew, whom he wasn’t close to, “seemed like the type of kid that just snapped.”

“He went on a rampage for some reason, only Anthony will be able to tell you what caused it,” Carl Lord said.

Anthony Lord, a registered sex offender with a lengthy criminal record, is expected to make an initial court appearance Monday or Tuesday.

Stephen McCausland, spokesman for the Maine Department of Public Safety, said further information about Lord’s rampage through northern Maine would only be released through court documents. He said officials are still trying to decide where Lord will make his court appearance.

Police arrested Lord in Houlton after a massive 17-hour manhunt in the wake of the rampage, which played out in four rural towns in Penobscot and Aroostook counties

The series of crimes started Thursday night in Benedicta and continued Friday morning in Silver Ridge Township, Benedicta and Lee. Lord was charged with shooting and killing Kyle Hewitt, 22, and Kevin Tozier, 58, and kidnapping Brittany Irish, 22, Hewitt’s girlfriend.

Police said Irish’s mother, Kim Irish, 58, Clayton McCarthy, 55, and Carlton Eddy, all area residents, were also wounded by gunshots. Police said Lord assaulted and tied up Kary Mayo of Silver Ridge Township.

All four injured are expected to recover, police said Friday.

During the rampage Lord burned down a barn, shot at police officers during a high speed chase and stole a pulp truck belonging to McCarthy, authorities said.

Police do not know the motive for the crime. State police had been investigating the death of Lord’s 6-month-old son who, died May 7 in Bangor.

On Saturday, several police cars were still parked outside the gray home in Benedicta where police say Lord killed Hewitt and wounded Kim Irish. From there, police say Lord kidnapped Brittany Irish, who was with Lord at the time of his arrest.

Richard Irish, Kim’s husband and Brittany’s father, told the AP on Saturday that his family wasn’t ready to talk about the ordeal.

Carl Lord disputed the idea that Brittany Irish had been kidnapped, saying that the two were affectionate toward each other at his home and that he thought they were dating.

Anthony Lord, who faces murder and kidnapping charges, is being held at the Aroostook County Jail in Houlton.