Man accused in shootings extradited

A 21-year-old man police suspect is tied to the slayings of two former classmates was extradited from Nevada to Idaho on Saturday, authorities said.

John Joseph Delling was being held in the Ada County Jail in Boise after being driven from Sparks, Nev. He is charged with first-degree murder in the shooting death of University of Idaho student David Boss in Moscow on March 31.

Police also suspect him in the slaying of Boise State University student Bradley Morse in Boise a few days later, and the March 20 shooting of University of Arizona student Jacob Thompson. Thompson survived the attack outside his Tucson, Ariz.

Delling, Boss and Thompson attended high school together. Morse went to school in a nearby town at about the same time.

Family members and court documents suggest that Delling struggled with mental illness. Police believe that may also explain why he allegedly made a 6,500-mile road trip that left the two university students dead in Idaho and the other recuperating in Arizona.

As a University of Idaho student in 2004 and 2005, Delling reportedly told dorm students that people were stealing his powers and that killing them was the only way to stop them, according to court documents.