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COLUMBUS, Ohio — <\/span>Police in Ohio’s capital city said Wednesday that they have gathered enough evidence to link a man charged in the double homicide<\/a> of his ex-wife and her husband in their Columbus home last month to the killings.<\/p>\n Columbus Police Chief Elaine Bryant said in an Associated Press interview that authorities now believe Michael David McKee, 39, a vascular surgeon who was living in Chicago, was the person seen walking down a dark alley near Monique and Spencer Tepe’s home in video footage<\/a> from the night of the murders. His vehicle has also been identified traveling near the house, and a firearm found in his Illinois residence also traced to evidence at the scene, she said.<\/p>\n An attorney representing McKee could not be identified through court listings. <\/p>\n His arrest<\/a> Saturday capped off nearly two weeks of speculation surrounding the mysterious killings that attracted national attention. No obvious signs of forced entry were found at the Tepes\u2019 home. Police also said no weapon was found there, and murder-suicide was not suspected. Further, nothing was stolen, and the couple\u2019s two young children and their dog were left unharmed in the home.<\/p>\n \u201cWhat we can tell you is that we have evidence linking the vehicle that he was driving to the crime scene. We also have evidence of him coming and going in that particular vehicle,\u201d Bryant told the AP. \u201cWhat I can also share with you is that there were multiple firearms taken from the property of McKee, and one of those firearms did match preliminarily from a NIBIN (ballistic) hit back to this actual homicide.\u201d<\/p>\n Bryant said that the department wants the public to keep the tips coming. Investigators were able to follow up on every phone call, email and private tip shared from the community to the department and some of that information allowed them to gather enough evidence to make an arrest, she said. <\/p>\n That work culminated in the apprehension of McKee<\/a> in Rockford, Illinois, where the hospital where he worked \u2014 OSF Saint Anthony Medical Center \u2014 has said it is cooperating with the investigation. He has been charged with premeditated aggravated murder in the shooting deaths. Monique Tepe, who divorced McKee in 2017, was 39. Her husband, a dentist whose absence from work that morning prompted the first call to police, was 37. <\/p>\n