Police: East Bend suspect stabbed wife and mother-in-law to death on Wednesday; Suspect dead | Local News

An “armed and dangerous” suspect who sounded an alarm to residents on the city’s east side Wednesday evening stabbed his estranged wife and elderly mother-in-law to death and kidnapped the mother-in-law, Bend police said Thursday. The suspect died of an apparent self-inflicted wound, police said.

The police response began around 7:24 p.m. with the report of a stabbing in the 3000 block of NW Kenwood Court in the Awbrey Butte neighborhood.

Bend police said the suspect, identified as 61-year-old John Leonard Davis, took his 83-year-old mother-in-law against her will from her home in the 21000 block of Dale Road on the city’s northern edge. He is said to have then driven – in her black Lincoln Navigator – to his estranged wife’s home in Awbrey Butte.

Police say Davis attacked and stabbed both women before driving off in the Navigator with his mother-in-law.

At 7:35 p.m., an off-duty Redmond police lieutenant spotted the Navigaor in Big Sky Park at the corner of Neff and Hamby streets. Police said Davis dropped his mother-in-law off and drove away.

The Navigator was found minutes later parked next to the park at Buckingham Elementary School. Witnesses reported seeing it Davis runs east through the nearby baseball fieldssaid the police.

Multiple agencies including the Central Oregon Emergency Response Team, Deschutes County SWAT And Multiple K9s responded and tracked Davis to an area of ​​Montana Drive. Police said Davis was found dead north of Big Sky Park and that death was seemingly self-inflicted.

The two women had non-life-threatening injuries and were transported to St. Charles, police said.

During the search, police sent multiple alerts through the Deschutes Alerts system to residents to shelter in place. The first warning went out at 8:08 p.m. and described the man as white, 1.90 meters tall and weighing 90 kilograms with white paint on his face and body. A second alarm was raised at 21:24 The final warning that he had been located was sent to residents at 9:43 p.m