![]() After a 10-mile chase down Interstate 5, he surrendered in Corning, CHP has said. She was later found safe with him in his white Honda Accord after a California Highway Patrol officer spotted him speeding and tried to pull him over, officers said. He later let go the family members, but not Maes, before heading south, Allison said. He obtained one when he carjacked a family in Yreka, taking three people, ages 17, 18 and 76, with him and Maes, Allison said. Lara had been looking to swipe a new get-away vehicle, Allison said. He didn't know what type of gun was used in the shooting. Lara and Levy didn't appear to know each other, Allison said. Levy was taken to an Oregon hospital with serious injuries, Allison said. Lara, with Maes alongside, wound his way to the Super 8 motel in Yreka, where he forced Maes into a room and then shot a man, identified in the complaint as Jack Norman Levy, in the abdomen. 'We're not aware of anything that happened outside of this jurisdiction,' he said. He declined to elaborate on the circumstances surrounding her disappearance. At some point he also forced Aundrea Maes, of Salem, Oregon, to accompany him, Allison said. He then allegedly fled with his pistol, the paper reported. He told his wife he panicked and hid the body, the newspaper reported. The Bend Bulletin has reported Lara told his wife, a Bend police officer, that while working security for Central Community College he hit Sawyer in his patrol vehicle. Lara's two-state crime spree began when he allegedly killed Sawyer, 23, of Bend. ![]() Lara was appointed Public Defender John Nosco, who declined to comment after the hearing.ĭavis also agreed to postpone discussions on extraditing Lara to Bend, Oregon, where he's suspected in the death of Kaylee Sawyer, until a hearing scheduled for 8:30 a.m. 'I believe there are no less than nine strikes involved,' said Joseph Allison, assistant district attorney for Siskiyou County, in asking Judge William Davis to refuse any bail, to which Davis agreed. (Photo: Greg Barnette)Ī murder suspect who sparked a manhunt in southern Oregon until he was caught in Corning has pleaded not guilty to charges alleging he shot a man at a Yreka motel, carjacked and kidnapped a family and forced a Salem, Oregon, woman along for the ride.Įdwin Enoc Lara, of Redmond, Oregon, stared straight down, occasionally flicking his eyes in a sideways glance, throughout his arraignment in the Siskiyou County Superior Court on charges of attempted murder, kidnapping, elder abuse, making criminal threats and carjacking Friday afternoon. Greg Barnette/Record Searchlight Murder suspect Edwin Lara is also accused of shooting a man at the Super 8 motel in Yreka. She then became trapped in the car, which was equipped with a cage and doors that couldn’t open from the inside.Greg Barnette/Record Searchlight Edwin Lara of Oregon is led into a courtroom in the Siskiyou County Superior Court in Yreka on Friday for his arraignment on attempted murder, kidnapping and other charges in connection to a crime spree last week that started with the death of a woman in Oregon. According to the lawsuit, Sawyer accepted a ride from Lara thinking he was a police officer. The lawsuit also accused the college of allowing its campus safety vehicles to closely resemble police patrol cars. This tragedy will forever resonate in the heart of our community,” said attorney Tim Williams. ![]() “COCC had the opportunity to discover that Lara once plotted a murder and struggled with an urge to kill most of his life. The attorneys also claim Lara’s mannerisms were so concerning that one female cadet refused to ride in the same patrol car as him. The family’s attorneys said the school’s Campus Public Safety Department knew about Lara’s fascination with dead bodies and that he showed nude photographs and pornographic videos of himself and a woman to his coworkers. Sawyer’s family filed a federal lawsuit against COCC and three college officials in July 2017, accusing the school of failing to do an adequate background check on Lara and fostering a culture that encouraged reckless behavior among its staff. “I can mourn Kaylee, my daughter, and not Kaylee Sawyer, the murder victim.” “I’m now able to rest my daughter in peace, and everybody who has been responsible for this horrific crime has been held accountable,” VanCleve said of the settlement. Juli VanCleave, Kaylee’s mother, said the family plans to use part of the settlement to continue KK’s Readers, a program that provides books for kids in head start and early education programs, according to KTVZ. Related: Ex-Oregon College Safety Officer Gets Life for Killing Woman During Shift
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