The Region - News from April 7, 1985

A man who reportedly held sheriff’s deputies at bay for about six hours after he barricaded himself in a Lancaster motel room has been booked on suspicion of the attempted murder of four deputies and a civilian who was riding along in a patrol car as an observer. John Evans, 27, of Phelan, near Victorville, was being held without bail at the Antelope Valley sheriff’s station after allegedly firing at deputies who responded to investigate a reported shooting at the Easy 8 Motel, investigators said. Evans allegedly fired on deputies and the civilian observer, Robert Dick, 29, who was treated and released from a local hospital after being wounded in the leg. Also wounded in the leg was Evans’ wife, Christine, 24, but she refused to tell investigators how she was injured.