More than 100 police officers searched for two days for the suspect in the shootings of two Minnesota state lawmakers and their spouses. They finally captured him late Sunday, the search ending when he crawled to officers who had tracked him to a field outside Minneapolis. The suspect, Vance Boelter, 57, had been on the run for a day and a half when investigators found his car and hat Sunday afternoon on a remote stretch of road in Sibley County, a largely rural area southwest of Minneapolis — about an hour’s drive from the sites of the attacks early Saturday. Dozens of police officers and about 20 SWAT teams had fanned out across the county over the weekend, in what officials called the largest search in state history. The search area narrowed when an officer reported seeing a person he thought was the suspect darting into woods nearby, Elliot Faust, a deputy police chief in Brooklyn Park, Minnesota, told reporters at a news conference Sunday night. A resident also reported seeing Boelter on a trail camera, Faust said. SWAT team officers confirmed that an image on the trail camera showed the suspect. They set up a 1-square-mile perimeter in the area, deploying drones and police dogs, Faust said. Officers spotted Boelter and used a drone to track him from overhead as he crawled through thick shrubs, Faust said. They converged on him, and although he was armed, no force was used while arresting him, officials said. He was captured not far from the home outside Green Isle, Minnesota, where he lived with his wife and children. At a makeshift command center in a parking lot nearby, officers congratulated each other after the search ended. The sheriff of Ramsey County, Minnesota, Bob Fletcher, posted a photo on Facebook showing Boelter standing in a field as he was taken into custody. The photo appeared to be altered, with officers’ faces obscured. Though the search went on for nearly two days and had the state on edge, Drew Evans, the superintendent of the Minnesota Bureau of Criminal Apprehension, said it could have taken even longer had it not been for the swift action of Brooklyn Park police officers who responded early Saturday to a report of a shooting at the residence of state Sen. John Hoffman. Officers proactively went to Rep. Melissa Hortman’s home to check on her, and found Boelter there. “If that had not happened,” Evans said Sunday, “I have every confidence that this would have continued throughout the day.” When police arrived at Hortman’s house, the suspect immediately opened fire on the responding officers, he said. The officers returned fire, and the man escaped out the back door of the house on foot onto a golf course. This article originally appeared in The New York Times.