OLATHE, Kan. -- A man accused in the abduction and slaying of Overland Park teenager Kelsey Smith is described by his neighbors as an "average guy."

Edwin R. Hall, 26, is charged with first-degree murder and aggravated kidnapping.

Smith disappeared June 2 after shopping for a gift at Target near 97th Street and Quivira Road. The store's surveillance video shows someone running up behind Smith in the parking lot after she put her bag in her car.

Searchers, using the last pinpointed signal from Smith's cell phone, found her body in a wooded area near Longview Lake on Wednesday afternoon. Police said a tip from the public led to the arrest of Hall. Police said Hall was questioned on Wednesday afternoon and was arrested a few hours later.

Neighbors told Kansas City television station KMBC that Hall moved into a home on Lincoln Street in Olathe about six months ago with his wife and 4-year-old son. People knew him as Jack.

"(He was) just your normal, average guy. (He) liked to work on cars and goof around on motorcycles and lawnmowers," neighbor Cameron Migues said.

Migues lived next door to Hall. Migues said he talked to him several times a week, and their children played together.

Migues said that his wife then saw the surveillance picture that police had released of the person of interest in the Smith case.

"She looked at the pictures and said, 'That looks like our neighbor.' We both kind of laughed it off at first, and then when I saw the pictures of the truck. I was, like, well?" Migues said.

KMBC-TV reported that Hall owned a pickup truck like the one police had been searching for.

Migues said he called authorities Wednesday morning.

"I called the TIPS Hotline and gave them the information, and a couple of hours later, there were police officers sitting here watching the house," Migues said.

Police have been in the neighborhood since Hall's arrest, KMBC reported.

"I was shocked. I was shocked," neighbor Tersa Dart said.

Dart lives across the street from Hall.

"He didn't really speak to anyone or say anything to anyone. We didn't know him well," Dart said.

Dart said she was surprised by Hall's arrest.

"He has a kid, so I didn't think he'd be capable of doing anything like that," Dart said.

A MySpace.com page that purportedly is Hall's, shows a picture of him with the name Jack and describes him as a "sweet troubled soul."

A list under Jack's general interests includes, "eating small children and harming small animals."

Hall is being held in jail on $5 million bond.