Lara had worked as a part-time public safety officer at Central Oregon Community College since December 2014.

CBS News reports.

Suspect in Ore. woman’s murder linked to Calif. crime spree

BEND, Ore. — Police say an Oregon college security guard charged with murdering a missing woman fled to California where he carjacked a family at gunpoint, shot a man at a motel and led officers on a high-speed chase before his arrest.

Edwin Lara, 31, allegedly went on the crime spree after being implicated Monday in the disappearance of a 23-year-old Kaylee Sawyer, of Bend, Oregon. He was charged with murder Tuesday in Sawyer’s death.

Police in Bend revealed that Lara’s wife had alerted authorities Monday of his possible involvement in Sawyer’s disappearance. Sawyer was last seen around 1 a.m. Sunday near her apartment, located close to the college where Lara worked. Her boyfriend told the station she had been out with friends for a bachelorette party when she vanished.