Woman Shot Dead in Dorris and Her Son is the Suspect

A Siskiyou County man is accused of shooting his mother. On Wednesday of last week deputies were called to the home of 55-year-old Mary Loretta Curtz in the town of Dorris. She was in the front yard dead, apparently from a gunshot wound. After deputies arrived, a 911 call was made by a man who said he was Curtz’s son, 24-year-old Andre Bryant Layne, and that he had accidentally shot his mother with a stolen rifle. Dispatchers convinced Lane to surrender, and he was booked into jail.