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Show DAILY HERALD D2 Saturday. April 7. 2007 Suspected killer of two Idaho students linked to Tucson shooting Officials fear there may be more victims Rebecca Boone THE ASSOCIATED PRESS man who is A accused of killing a University of Idaho student and is under investigation in the separate slaying of a Boise State University student several days later is now believed by authorities to have shot and wounded a man in Tucson, Ariz., the Ada County sheriffs office said Friday. John Joseph Delling, a former Boise resident who last lived in Antelope, Calif., has been linked to the Arizona shooting of Jacob J. Thompson, 23, oh March 20, Sheriff Gary Raney Said. Thompson, who is originally from Boise, is now in rehabilitation after being shot in the face and chest, Raney told a news conference. Delling was arrested Tuesday by police in Sparks, Nev., on a stolen car warrant issued e by Ada County and a murder warrant issued by Moscow police in the death of UI senior David Boss, a former high school classmate of Delling at Timberline High School in Boise. Thompson also attended Timberline, Raney said. Washoe County, Nev., sheriff 's Deputy Brooke Keast said first-degre- DEBRA REIDSparks Tribune Murder suspect John Delling, 21, signs paperwork allowing his extradition to Idaho during a video arraignment in the Washoe County Jail in Reno, Nev., on Friday. Delling has declined to talk to reporters. It was not known if he was represented by a lawyer. Boss, a history major, was killed early on March 31 in his off campus apartment, shot twice in the head, police said. Police have also identified Delling as a suspect in the death of Bradley Morse, 25, whose body was found early Tuesday in a Boise city park pond near an office of the Idaho Department of Parks and Recreation where Morse worked as a janitor. Family and acquaintances of Delling have said the young man was troubled and acting increasingly erratic before the slayings. Delling apparently drove some 6,500 miles across much of the West, including Cali- fornia, Idaho, Oregon, Washington, Utah, Arizona and k Nevada, during a period prior to the killings in Idaho, Raney said. Authorities fear there may be other victims. "We've been overwhelmed with these possibilities. Who might have been victims if he was planning another shooting? Why did he drive 6,500 four-wee- miles in one month?" Raney said. 'What happened between March 20 and March 30?" Police have sent alerts to other departments along Delling's alleged route, trying to see if any other unsolved shoot- - ings happened during March, Raney said. Investigators are seeking help from the public aswelL "He had to eat, he had to sleep, he had to stop and get -gas," Raney said. "He had to talk to people. We're hoping those people can help." "There is certainly a long pattern of behaviors that put people in fear," he said. Thompson didnt know why he was targeted, Raney said, adding that a man believed to be Delling lured Thompson from his home in Arizona by tapping on the window and telling him he needed to move his truck, which was parked in front. As Thompson moved the truck, he asked a man sitting on a bicycle if he was the one who wanted the truck moved, Raney said. The man on the bicycle approached the truck and fired five times at the driver's side door, Raney said. Thompson was hit three times, according to police, with one bullet hitting his face and lodging in the back of his head. Despite his injuries, Thompson, a student at the University of Arizona, is now able to speak and identified Delling from a photo lineup, Raney said. Investigators are struggling to discover exactly how the four men were connected. Morse attended Meridian High School in a town next to Boise, while Boss, Thompson and Delling all attended Timberline High. "Often crimes are a matter of who did it. This is a matter of why did he do it," Raney said. "Thompson has lived at the University of Arizona for the past three years. Was it something that happened four years ago? Eight years ago? Ten years ago?" Idaho authorities expect to prosecute Delling for the slayings before he would go to Arizona to face possible charges there. "He'll come to Idaho and be charged with the murders," Raney said. The gun that was used to shoot Thompson was not the same weapon that was used in the two Idaho killings, Raney said Police believe the gun used in the Idaho slayings was purchased on March 26 in Boise, he said. Boy's homemade floating toy causes bomb scare m Washington Paul Sand "It's probably better safe than sorry," Calpeno, 60, said of the police response and the AnTACOMA, Wash. nearly five-hoferry delay. A ferry captain spotted the thony Calpeno is used to disruptions in the commute from toy, which was made of plastic his Anderson Island home to piping, wood and batteries, at his mainland job. about 1:40 p.m. and called for Ferries break down. Bad help, Troyer said. Police responded and halted weather forces cancellations. But this time it was differferry service and traffic on the ent, if only for the attention nearby Burlington Northern it received. TV news crews Sante Fe train tracks in case the device were a bomb, he swarmed the area near the said. A number of agencies Steilacoom ferry dock as law enforcement officers and and units were called in: Pierce rubberneckers waited for an County's bomb squad and divanswer. ers, Steilacoom Public Safety, Was it a bomb or a hoax that Tacoma police, the Coast Guard and the Fort Lewis K-brought the afternoon's ferry commute to a standstill? unit. Turns out it was neither. A The toy had been secured or homemade floating toy that a walka boy had lost in the water way down to a dock used for caused all the hubbub. The launching small boats, said boy heard about the Thursday Bob Drozynski, chief of afternoon commotion at the Department of Public ferry dock and told his mother, Safety. robot who drove him down to the A remote-contrscene to identify his errant toy, knocked the package down to said Ed Troyer, Pierce County the dock, and officials tried to sheriff's spokesman. determine what to do next. TACOMA NEWS TRIBUNE 9 wedged-underneat- h Steila-coom- 's As each hour's ferry run was missed, cars and people began to amass in Steilacoom, and workers who were finished with their shifts at the Special Commitment Center on McNeil Island waited. Between 300 and 400 people who work at the facility were stranded with no way off the island, said Ron Van Boening, the center's sr. 1fi .J-- r y ; 1 "1 fij superintendent. Finally, the robotic device began to pick through the package, but officials weren't sure what they were dealing with, Troyer said. Then the boy showed up. He identified his toy and said he'd lost it in the water the day before. The batteries attached to it were to power a rudder, which he'd pulled off the device, Troyer said. "This kid did the right thing" in owning up to the floating toy, he said. At 6:40 p.m. people and cars began to board a ferry, and workers from McNeil Island w 'p?. Js ii came ashore. A September 2006 photograph "v SHEILA MIQUEZRickf.com of the Steilacoom ferry in Steilacoom, Wash. Burgeoning salmon seasons set for Oregon, Calif., Washington coasts Donna Gordon Blankinship Tribe was given a quota of ington fishing were among the lowest since 1994. He said the council had some SEATTLE After nearly difficult negotiations during its vessel quotas of 100 chinook shutting down salmon fishing meeting in Seattle this week, per week in ApriL and 75 per off the Oregon and California week per vessel in September particularly over the salmon coasts last year, the Pacific and October. Some areas have season within Puget Sound. Fisheries Management CounA commercial fisherman more specific restrictions, such NX cil decided Friday to allow as from California expressed as which ports are open on much fishing as possible in which days. anger concerning the negotiathose improved fisheries. tion process after the meeting North of Cape Falcon to This year's restrictions faD ended in suburban SeaTac, the Canadian border, the to the north off the coast season Is limited to dates in even though the restrictions r of Washington and in Puget set by the council would not May through September, and Sound, said Chuck Tracy, salmthe quotas have been cut for affect his salmon catch near on staff officer for the council commercial fishing. Most recEureka, Calif. "Last year, the area of cenreational fishing has been curDave Bitts called the restrictral Oregon and the California tailed as well but there will be tions placed on Washington fishers were very constrained. some increases in coho quotas, commercial fishing "totally This year, the Klamath Falls politically motivated" and said Tracy said. RICH PEDRONCELUArizona Daily Star chinook has made a turnThe council set an overgovernment officials (fid not n around. They have basically as Dylan Nova, 15, a member of the Yurok Tribe, pulls in a salmon he caught while gill net fishing all show scientific proof to supquota for the much fishing time as possible," near the mouth of the Klamath River near Klamath, Calif., on July 23, 2002. Washington fisheries of 32,500 port the quotas. chinook and 140,000 coho for "I was amazed that people Tracy said. He said the length of the Or2007. weren't running around look"Commercial fisheries catch ing for pitchforks," said Bitts The salmon season extendthe season win open on March egon and California season and open on a series of dates bethe quotas set for commercial 15 for all salmon except coho. who has been a commercial tween April and October this ing south from Cape Falcon, primarily chinook, so they're and recreational fishermen The quota for the Klamath about 30 miles south of the fisherman for about 30 years. going to face a much tougher year with different dates will be close to those of a tradi- mouth of the Columbia River, River recreational fishery was time this year," said Tracy, "I thought they were way too and quotas for each of eight tional season. set at 10,400. The Klamath to the Mexican border will who said the quotas for Wash civil about it." geographic areas. Next year, THE r ASSOCIATED PRESS - 40,800 chinook. 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