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NORTHWEST East Oregonian Page 2A Friday, July 29, 2016 BRIEFLY Police: Oregon woman killed died of blunt force trauma BEND (AP) — A body found off a rural highway has been identiied as that of a young woman who went missing early Sunday, police said Thursday. An autopsy revealed 23-year-old Kaylee Sawyer died of blunt force trauma, but no more information about how she was killed will be immediately released “based on legal restrictions with this investigation,” the Bend Police Department said in a statement. Edwin Lara, 31, a security guard at Central Oregon Community College in Bend, was charged Tuesday and is jailed in Northern California after he was arrested there the same day as a suspect in a shooting and carjacking in the town of Yreka. Sawyer disappeared early Sunday during a walk alone in the middle of the night in Bend after arguing her boyfriend. Her body was found Tuesday off Highway 126 at the bottom of a small canyon between the Central Oregon towns of Redmond and Sisters, police said. Lara’s wife, Isabel Ponce- Lara, on Monday went to police in their hometown of Redmond to report that Lara had told her he hit Sawyer with his patrol vehicle, killing her, then panicked and hid her body, according to documents iled in court. Lara tearfully told her the story and then drove off, said Ponce-Lara, a new Bend police oficer who was worried that he was suicidal. Police searching the couple’s home found Sawyer’s blood-soaked purse and bloody women’s and men’s clothing in a shed, according to 62 pages of afidavits iled with the Deschutes County Circuit Court in Bend. Court documents said evidence showed Lara had committed crimes of vehic- ular homicide, assault and hit-and-run. Deschutes County District Attorney John Hummel has said he did not believe Lara accidentally ran over Sawyer, adding that he could not say what evidence led his ofice to charge Lara with murder instead of vehicular homicide. Lara’s court-appointed attorney, Benjamin Kim, declined to comment about his client and the case. He cited an order from Deschutes County Circuit Court Judge Alta Brady prohib- iting prosecutors, defense attorneys and police from speaking publicly about it. Brady’s ofice did not immediately return a telephone message left by The Associated Press seeking comment about the gag order. Lara is charged in the Yreka case with attempted murder and kidnapping. Timothy Bullard/Grants Pass Daily Courier via AP, File In this 2005 ile photo, a lower Rogue River rafter takes in the history and the view of Zane Grey’s cabin in Grants Pass. Zane Grey’s one-room cabin on Oregon’s Rogue River has been added to the National Register of Historic Places. PORTLAND (AP) — A small cabin on Oregon’s Rogue River has been designated for preservation under the National Register of Historic Places. The cabin was once owned by Zane Grey, the writer best known for Western novels such as “Riders of the Purple Sage.” After loating the Rogue River’s rapids and falling in love with its steelhead trout, Grey bought a mining claim in 1926 at Winkle Bar, where he built the cabin that became his wilderness retreat. The U.S. Bureau of Land Manage- ment purchased the property in 2008 to help preserve it. Visitors to the cabin can see the remains of a wooden boat that’s thought to be one of the vessels from Grey’s irst journey down the river in 1925. Mystery surrounds death of Salem inmate SALEM (AP) — The death of a 27-year-old Salem man at the Oregon State Penitentiary remains a mystery more than a week after it happened. James Howland died July 18 after being found unresponsive in his cell three days earlier. Staff members at the Salem prison were recently notiied of 10 separate incidents in which inmates needed medical intervention and hospital- ization after they started experiencing seizure-like symptoms, vomiting and difi- culty breathing, the Statesman Journal reported. In half those cases, inmates were discovered with synthetic marijuana in their possession. The memo didn’t mention Howland by name, but said: “One of those incidents resulted in the eventual death of an inmate.” Oregon Department of Corrections spokeswoman Elizabeth Craig clariied the memo and said the department made a mistake in attributing the death to the drug. “A conclusion about his death has not been made and DOC is not the entity that makes that conclusion,” she said. Deputy State Medical Examiner Dr. Larry Lewman is awaiting toxicology reports and Oregon State Police are handling the investigation. Crystal Gonzalez, Howland’s sister, said her brother was on life support at Salem Hospital for two days before oficials contacted her. She said the family decided to take Howland off life support after being told he was brain dead and would not recover. Prison oficials told her Howland had been unconscious for 20 minutes before he was found, Gonzalez said. She waited until her mother returned from a trip, and then said their goodbyes. Immedi- ately, his hospital room was declared a crime scene and they left, Gonzalez said. His body remains at a funeral home while his family waits for an autopsy report. “We’re angry,” Gonzalez said. “We’re sad, and nobody is giving us answers.” Synthetic marijuana, also known as “Spice” and “K2,” was once sold at freely at smoke shops under the guise of being an herbal incense product. The drug is usually a dried herb doused in chemicals that produce a marijuana-like high. It is notorious for causing bad reactions such as paranoia, suicidal thoughts, accelerated heart rate, brain damage and even death, the memo to prison staff said Howland was convicted in 2009 of stealing a car and eluding police. His relatives said he stayed out of trouble after serving time, but returned to his old ways after his broth- er’s suicide. Howland pleaded guilty in 2014 to reckless driving, hit-and-run with property damage and unauthorized use of a vehicle. His earliest release date was in 6 ½ years. Kristi Howland, his mother, said her son took parenting classes, worked in the prison kitchen and tried to spend as much time as possible outside in the prison yard. Corrections The East Oregonian works hard to be accurate and sincerely regrets any errors. If you notice a mistake in the paper, please call 541-966-0818. 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