{"id":630803,"date":"2026-03-04T04:42:20","date_gmt":"2026-03-04T04:42:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/630803\/"},"modified":"2026-03-04T04:42:20","modified_gmt":"2026-03-04T04:42:20","slug":"la-pine-man-arrested-in-killing-of-mother-dcso-says-la-pine-sunriver-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/630803\/","title":{"rendered":"La Pine man arrested in killing of mother, DCSO says | La Pine \/ Sunriver News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>LA PINE, Ore. &#8212; A La Pine man was arrested early Monday morning, suspected of killing his mother at their home, the Deschutes County Sheriff&#8217;s Office said. Two juveniles allegedly witnessed part of the incident.<\/p>\n<p>The suspect, 25-year-old Gavaughn Bates, was arrested on suspicion of murder, aggravated assault and strangulation witnessed by a child, DCSO public information officer Jason Carr said.\u00a0No formal charges in the case had been filed as of Tuesday afternoon.<\/p>\n<p>Deputies first responded to what Carr said was &#8220;suspicious circumstances&#8221; at\u00a0Gordy\u2019s Truck Stop in La Pine. That&#8217;s where deputies first contacted Bates and determined he was the suspect in the homicide.<\/p>\n<p>Deputies then went to the home on Woodstock Drive\u00a0and found\u00a0ErmaJean McGillicuddy, 56, deceased.<\/p>\n<p>Carr said deputies learned two juveniles witnessed part of the altercation leading up to the homicide. The juveniles were removed and connected with support services.<\/p>\n<p>Bates was booked into the county jail. Carr said there was no ongoing threat to the community and the case is still being investigated.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"LA PINE, Ore. &#8212; A La Pine man was arrested early Monday morning, suspected of killing his mother&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":630804,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[5123],"tags":[1582,276,12817,2961,197603,425,224,5337,50],"class_list":["post-630803","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-los-angeles","tag-ca","tag-california","tag-email","tag-la","tag-lapine","tag-local","tag-los-angeles","tag-losangeles","tag-news"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/116169077523519989","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/630803","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=630803"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/630803\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/630804"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=630803"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=630803"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=630803"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}