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Anthony Pavone, 52, of Morrisonville (NY State Police) BINGHAMTON, N.Y. (AP) — A retired New York state prison guard sought in connection with the fatal shootings of his ex-girlfriend and the man she was dating surrendered to police after a standoff at an upstate motel, authorities said Friday.

State police said Anthony Pavone, 52, of Morrisonville surrendered around 4 a.m. Friday after more than four hours of negotiations with police as law enforcement SWAT teams surrounded the Del Motel in Binghamton.

Senior Investigator Patrick Mitchell of the state police in Plattsburgh said a Broome County Sheriff's Department patrol spotted Pavone's pickup truck in the parking lot of the motel late Thursday night.

After police evacuated the motel, police began negotiating with Pavone to surrender. Pavone, who worked 25 years at Clinton Correctional Facility in Dannemora, told police he was armed, but surrendered without incident.

Authorities launched a search for Pavone last Sunday after troopers found the bodies of 52-year-old Timothy Carter and 43-year-old Patricia Howard inside Carter's home in Dannemora, in the northeastern Adirondacks 140 miles north of Albany.

Police say Howard and Pavone had dated but had recently broken up. Carter and Howard had gone on their second date last Saturday, Howard's birthday. Authorities said Howard called state police in Plattsburgh at 3:54 a.m. Sunday to report that Pavone was outside the house and wouldn't leave.

Troopers later arrived and found Howard and Carter dead from multiple gunshot wounds.

Mitchell said police were alerted to Pavone's location after the license plate reader on the Broome County sheriff's patrol car scanned the plate on his truck.

Motel owner Ashok Patel told The Associated Press that Pavone checked into his $50-a-night room on Tuesday. He said police didn't tell him why they were interested in the guest in Room 20 at the 26-room motel, only that "they were looking for one guy with a black truck."

Patel said he had no idea Pavone was wanted in connection with a double slaying.

"His behavior is like a normal guy," Patel said.

Mitchell said state police investigators from Plattsburgh were en route to Binghamton to return Pavone to Clinton County, where he'll face murder charges.

Carter had worked at Clinton state prison as civilian maintenance employee since November 2005. Howard, a divorced mother of two daughters, was a dental hygienist in Plattsburgh.