Police: Man who killed deputy suspect in 2nd case

Police: Man who killed deputy suspect in 2nd case
GRANTS PASS, Ore. (AP) — On Tuesday night, George Bundy Wasson, a retired educator, was recounting legends of his Coquille Tribe in a storytelling session
at the University of Oregon.
By early Wednesday morning, however, Wasson, 79, was found shot to death in his burning hone in Eugene, Ore., police said.
Now investigators are trying to determine if Wasson was the first victim of Ricardo Antonio Chaney, who is also suspected of carjacking two men a short time
later outside their home in Eugene before driving the stolen black BMW sedan to California. Once he arrived there, Chaney shot and killed Mendocino County
Deputy Ricky Del Fiorentino before being shot and killed himself by police, sheriff's officials said.
Eugene police spokeswoman Melinda McLaughlin said it was "more likely than not" that Wasson was shot dead by Chaney.
McLaughlin would not divulge any more details of the slaying of Wasson, who lived alone. Chaney had earlier been considered a person of interest by police
because he knew Wasson's family.
Authorities responding to the fire around 12:36 a.m. Wednesday at Wasson's home found his body. The fire was started after Wasson was killed, authorities
said.