The suspect in the murder of a Brockton behavioral health nurse whose body was left at Logan airport is back in police custody in Kenya, according to authorities.

Kevin Kangethe was arrested in Embulbul, Kajiado County on the outskirts of Kenya’s capital city on Tuesday evening as he sought refuge at one of his relatives’ homes, Nairobi police boss Adamson Bungei said.

“We have rearrested him and we thank all that helped in this,” he said.

Margaret Mbitu, a 31-year-old nurse at the BAMSI facility in Brockton, was found dead in a car in the central garage at Logan airport around 6:30 p.m. on Nov. 1.

State Police quickly identified Kangethe, 40, of Lowell, as a suspect in her death. Kangethe was known to Mbitu, police said, and at the time her body was found, he had already boarded a flight to Kenya.

“With this suspect’s recapture we are once again on track to seek justice for Margaret Mbitu and her family,” said Suffolk DA Kevin Hayden in a statement. “It is our hope that Kevin Kangethe’s return to Boston will proceed in a timely manner and without further incident.”

Kangethe escaped Kenyan authorities last week while awaiting extradition to the U.S..

Kangethe was held in Muthaiga Police Station in Nairobi, and police said he was meeting with a lawyer when he slipped out and jumped on a matatu, a privately owned minibus widely used as share taxis in Kenya, the Kenya-based news outlet Nation.Africa reported.

Mbitu worked as a per diem nurse a BAMSI, an organization that works with people with disabilities, mental health and addiction challenges.

A spokesperson for the company called Mbitu “warm, caring and loved by everyone she worked with, both staff and the people she cared for in our group homes,” following her death.

Kangethe’s escape raised suspicion that the police officers on duty that day may have been bribed to allow his escape.

The four officers who were on duty at the report office that day have been suspended awaiting disciplinary action and may face prosecution.

An officer’s report seen by the Associated Press said that on the day Kangethe escaped, a man named John Maina Ndegwa introduced himself to the officers as Kangethe’s lawyer and said he wanted to speak with his client.

“The officers agreed to his request and removed the prisoner from the cells and took him to (an) office … leaving them there. After a short while the prisoner escaped by running away and left the (lawyer) behind,” the report said.

Officers pursued Kangethe but did not catch him, the police report said, adding that Ndegwa was arrested.

Once returned to Massachusetts,, Kangethe will face first degree murder charges in the death of Mbitu.

— Herald wire services contributed