Thursday, July 28, 2011

Victim, Suspect Identified in Fatal Shooting on Warm Springs Reservation

The FBI and Warm Springs Police Department have identified the victim in Tuesday’s fatal shooting on the Warm Springs Reservation as 24-year-old Delmer S. Davis. Davis was a tribal member.

At approximately 2:10 p.m. Tuesday, July 26, Davis was sitting in a vehicle outside a home in the Greeley Heights area of Warm Springs. He was shot as he held his young son. The child was not injured. Davis was transported to Mountain View Hospital in Madras where he was pronounced dead.

Shortly before 6:00 p.m., Ted L. Barney, Jr., age 23, turned himself into the Warm Springs Police Department. Barney is also a tribal member, but he was living off of the Reservation. Federal charges are pending.

The FBI and Warm Springs Tribal Police are continuing the investigation.

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