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This views shows the B12 parking lot at Central Oregon Community College (COCC) in Bend, Oregon. On July 24, 2016, Kaylee Anne Sawyer, 23, was walking home from a bachelorette party in Bend, Oregon after an argument with her boyfriend when she encountered 31-year-old campus security guard Edwin Lara.
Lara was wearing a security uniform from Central Oregon Community College (COCC) resembling an official police outfit and driving a campus security SUV with plexiglass separating the front and back seats and auto-locking doors. He offered her a ride.
Sawyer, a COCC student and dental assistant, accepted the ride & was held in the back of his vehicle, unable to escape. Lara drove to this secluded parking lot where he sexually assaulted and killed Sawyer. Despite defensive wounds, her ultimate cause of death was ruled as blunt force trauma. Her body would later be found in a ravine to the north between Sisters and Redmond.
In May 2019, the state of Oregon passed Kaylee's Law, which defines how campus security officers may appear so that are not confused with actual police officers. It also requires nationwide background checks of all individuals employed as special campus security officers.
In August 2022, two suspects were arrested for reportedly stealing the ashes of Kaylee Sawyer from a storage container.
As a side note, this case bears a similar resemblance to the case of Arlis Perry, a 19 year-old newlywed who was murdered inside the Stanford Memorial Church at Stanford University by Stephen Crawford, a security guard in 1974. When DNA was linked to Crawford in 2018, law enforcement arrived at his residence to arrest him, however he committed suicide.
From: https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9043427/Mother-23-year-old-woman-killed-campus-security-wanted-ask-colleagues-red-flags.html
https://www.koin.com/news/oregon/kaylees-law-kaylee-sawyer-campus-security-officers-governor-kate-brown-july-18-2019/
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