Police Identify Victim in Bend Homicide, Arrest Suspect

Bend, Oregon- Authorities have identified the victim in a northeast Bend homicide as 54-year-old Robert Glenn Haston, a resident of Bend.

Haston was found dead on the evening of May 7 after Bend Police responded to a report of a deceased person in the 100 block of NE Emerson Avenue around 7:16 p.m. Officers arriving at the scene located Haston, who had suffered a fatal injury.

While detectives were investigating the death, officers received a report of a trespassing incident in the 600 block of NE Irving Avenue. The caller described a man wearing a backpack running through a yard and acting erratically. Officers located the man, identified as 27-year-old Phillip Matthew Howard Evans of Bend, and arrested him on suspicion of second-degree trespassing.

Further investigation led police to identify Evans as the suspect in Haston’s death. He was arrested and booked into the Deschutes County Jail on charges of second-degree murder, first-degree assault and unlawful use of a weapon.

Detectives are continuing the investigation and have begun serving search warrants in connection with the case. No additional information has been released by authorities at this time.