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Edwin lara isabel ponce7/27/2023 ![]() Lara eventually dropped his three California victims on the side of the road, again threatened to kill them and continued driving southbound with his Oregon victim. During the drive, Lara confessed to his victims that he had an “urge to kill” and had already murdered a young woman in Bend and shot a man in Yreka. After threatening to shoot them, Lara entered their vehicle with his Oregon victim and forced them to drive off. At this point, Lara’s victim pleaded with him to let her go, but he again grabbed her hand and forced her to flee with him by foot to a nearby gas station.Īt the gas station, Lara found his next victims, two young men and their elderly grandmother, sitting inside a vehicle. When the man wouldn’t comply, Lara shot him in the abdomen. With his gun visible, Lara told the man that he needed his vehicle. Lara parked, grabbed his victim by the hand and approached the man. In the early morning hours on July 26, 2016, Lara stopped at a motel in Yreka, California where he spotted an elderly man near his vehicle. At some point during the drive, Lara sought to change vehicles to avoid detection and stopped at two rest areas looking for another vehicle to steal. Inside the hotel room, Lara handcuffed his victim, forced her to take sleeping pills, and made a series of physical advances leading her to believe he might sexually assault her.Ī short while later, after receiving a phone call and growing concerned that law enforcement was nearing his location, Lara left the hotel with his victim and continued traveling toward California. Along the way, Lara decided to stop at a hotel in Cottage Grove, Oregon. He then forced her to travel with him to California. Lara told his victim he was a police officer and showed her news reports about what he had done to Kaylee Sawyer. Early on the morning of July 24, 2016, Lara brutally murdered 23-year-old Bend resident Kaylee Sawyer, a crime for which he would later receive a life sentence in Deschutes County Circuit Court.Īfter the murder, on July 25, 2016, Lara fled to Salem, Oregon where he carjacked and kidnapped a young woman at gun point. Their courage and perseverance throughout Lara’s lengthy state and federal cases are an inspiration to the entire law enforcement community.”Īccording to court documents, between July 24 and July 26, 2016, Lara went on a violent crime spree that left multiple victims and their families in its wake. I sincerely hope Lara’s two life sentences will bring some measure of comfort to his victims and their families. “There is simply no place in civil society for this type of horrific violence. “Edwin Lara is a ruthless killer who will rightfully spend the rest of his life in prison,” said Billy J. ![]() Boyfriendĭuring her time of death, she was in a relationship with her Boyfriend Cameron Reimhofer.EUGENE, Ore.-Edwin Enoc Lara, 34, a former campus safety officer at Central Oregon Community College and resident of Bend, Oregon, was sentenced today to life in federal prison for kidnapping and carjacking. In July 2017, Kaylee Sawyer’s family sued Central Oregon Community College, and family’s attorneys, Jason Kafoury and Tim Williams said Lara’s red flags should have been evident to COCC and that the college knew he had a “fascination with dead bodies.”ĬOCC and Kaylee’s family reached a settlement and the college agreed to pay $2 million to her family. At first, Edwin pleaded not guilty to the murder charge, and to avoid the death sentence, he changed his plea to guilty as part of a plea bargain. On July 26, Edwin was driving down a highway near Redding, California, and called 911 and told that he had kidnapped someone else and had a gun on him, but he was arrested and taken into custody.įrom the Investigation report, Edwin attempted to sexually assault Kaylee before killing her. Edwin was arrested in Northern California after going on a crime spree that involved a carjacking, kidnapping, and shooting. Later, officers searched their home and found Kaylee Sawyer’s purse, shoes, blood-stained rock, and a clump of hair. Edwin Lara kidnapped and Murdered Kaylee Sawyer.ĭay after he killed Kaylee he told his wife that he accidentally hit and killed Sawyer and hid her body, On July 25, 2015, his wife Isabel Ponce-Lara reported to Police about her husband had confessed to killing a woman.
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