The source said authorities caught the man, who had been on the loose after killing his wife with a knife and then going on a shooting rampage in Baakline, 45 km (30 miles) south of the capital Beirut.
The shooter had used a pump-action rifle, the source and state news agency NNA said. NNA said the motive remained unclear.
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