The mother and sons were later dropped off along I-5. Yreka Police Chief Brian Bowles said Lara forced one of the man’s sons to drive at gunpoint. Five minutes after police got the call about the shooting, another man phoned in from a gas station, saying his car had been taken with his wife and two sons still inside. Edwin Lara is charged with murder in the July death of 23-year-old Kaylee Sawyer. Previous coverage: Man wanted for Bend murder, Salem. Those charges are related to the alleged kidnapping and carjacking of a Salem woman. The mayhem in the former gold-mining town of Yreka started near dawn Tuesday when a man was shot in the stomach at the Super 8 Motel and critically wounded. Lara is charged with aggravated murder for allegedly kidnapping, attempting to sexually assault and then killing Kaylee Sawyer on July 24. Lara was charged with murder Tuesday in her death after a body was found. Lara was fleeing his home state after being implicated Monday in the disappearance a day earlier of 23-year-old Kaylee Sawyer, of Bend. Charges against Lara in California include attempted murder, kidnapping, carjacking and burglary. Maes had been arrested with Edwin Lara, of Redmond, Oregon, after he led police on a chase exceeding 100 miles per hour (160 kilometers per hour) that began in Red Bluff on Interstate 5. The former campus security guard who pleaded guilty to murdering Central Oregon Community College student Kaylee Sawyer received a second life sentence in prison for kidnapping. District Court in Eugene on additional charges for kidnapping a Salem woman following the alleged kidnap and murder of Kaylee Sawyer in Bend. “I will confirm that we dropped all charges,” California Highway Patrol Officer Ken Reineman said by phone from Red Bluff, California. Officer Max Moreno of the Tehama County Sheriff’s Office said Wednesday morning that Maes has been released from the county jail. The Yreka Police Department said in a statement that Aundrea Elizabeth Maes, a 19-year-old from Salem, was not a suspect but a victim. SALEM, Oregon – All charges have been dropped against a young Oregon woman arrested in Northern California with a wanted Oregon man after a shooting and kidnapping rocked a small town, authorities said Wednesday.
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