The North Carolina father and son who went on the run after a gun fight with law enforcement officers, ended their flight from justice the same way it started, in a blaze of gun fire. This time, cops say, one of the fugitives was killed in the battle.

Acting on a tip from a viewer of the Fox Network show, America's Most Wanted, officers from the North Carolina State Bureau of Investigation went to a home in Ararat, North Carolina in search for Keith and Matthew Taylor. At 8:06 a.m. EDT, State Bureau of Investigation Special Response Team and the Surry County Sheriff's Officers observed Keith and Matthew Taylor at the home. Officers saw that both of the Taylors were armed.

When officers asked the father and son to drop their weapons and surrender, officials say, they opened fire. When officers fired back, Keith Taylor was struck and killed. The younger Taylor then surrendered to the officers and was placed under arrest. After the gun fight, investigators searched the Taylor's hideout and found numerous weapons and over eight hundred rounds of ammunition.

Both of the Taylor men were on the run for a shooting incident in Carteret County, NC on November 26, 1998. Deputies from the Carteret County Sheriff's Office went to the Taylor's home searching for 21-year-old Matthew Taylor. Taylor had missed an April 1998 court appearance on charges that he had purchased and distributed cocaine to his fifteen year old girlfriend. The girlfriend died after ingesting the drug.

Deputies say as they approached the Taylor's house, they were suddenly under attack by automatic gunfire. They say the shooter was 49-year-old Keith Taylor, Matthew's father. They say the possessive father was firing at the officer's from another house on the street.

Both the father and son then fled into the nearby woods. Deputies say the elder Taylor has always been paranoid of law enforcement and the government. They also believed he had been stockpiling weapons and food for just such an occasion.

The younger Taylor was being held at the Surry County Jail in Dobson, N.C. Authorities say he is being transferred to a higher-level security complex.