Ronda Ebeling

Deadly force

Police received a call from a person who had been on the phone with a woman who was going to meet with her ex-boyfriend at a remote location. The person calling said that he could hear the woman screaming and that he believed that she was being assaulted. When deputies arrived, they found Ronda Ebeling and Ray Wyatt standing in a field. Wyatt shot Ebeling in the upper body and fled on foot. Additional deputies arrived and swept the area, eventually finding Wyatt hiding in a bush nearby. He was shot and killed.