Three people were arrested and one woman was shot Saturday in an alleged recreational-vehicle heist near China Hat Road that resulted in the RV going up in flames.

Edward Alexander Baer, Kayla Eve Grigsby and Tristan Love Hoelscher are accused of trying to steal an RV, which belonged to a man who had died the day prior, in the early hours of Saturday morning among homeless encampments near China Hat Road, said Sgt. Jason Wall, a Deschutes County Sheriff’s Office spokesperson.

Baer, 32, Grigsby, 29, and Hoelscher, 35, who are living in the homeless encampments on U.S. Forest Service land, had hitched a pickup truck to the RV and began to flee, Wall said.

“These other three believed it to be up for grabs,” Wall said.

Rosey Naihe Olson, a 33-year-old woman who also lived in the area, noticed the three were allegedly trying to steal the RV, so, in response, she and a friend chased them down.

The RV had its side pop-outs out and jacks down to the ground, so it got stuck, Wall said. That meant Olson and her friend were able to jump into the bed of the pickup truck to confront Baer, Grigsby and Hoelscher, Wall said.

Olson allegedly broke the pickup truck’s rear window while the three were inside and threw objects from the truck bed onto the ground, law enforcement said. Baer allegedly began shooting at Olson with a handgun. She was hit in the shoulder, Wall said.

Wall couldn’t confirm whether or not investigators had found a handgun at the crime scene.

In the midst of it all, Olson’s friend lit the RV on fire while it was still attached to the pickup truck, the sheriff’s office said.

As Olson and her friend dealt with her gunshot wound, Baer, Grigsby and Hoelscher cut the hitch that connected the truck and the RV and escaped, Wall said.

“In their excitement, or fear, instead of detaching from the hitch, they cut through it,” Wall said.

As Baer, Grigsby and Hoelscher allegedly fled the scene in the pickup truck to a house in La Pine where they were arrested later that day, Olson and her friend began searching for help.

“So they’re stumbling around in the dark trying to get people to help them,” Wall said.

Eventually, Olson and her friend found someone willing to take them to St. Charles Bend where, per protocol, hospital staff notified the 911 dispatch center of the gunshot wound. Because the hospital is in the Bend Police Department’s jurisdiction, it was the first call, but police quickly realized the alleged RV heist took place in the sheriff’s office’s territory, confirmed Sheila Miller, a spokesperson for Bend Police.

Olson was treated at the hospital and eventually released, Wall said. Grigsby and Hoelscher were released from jail as of Monday evening, after being arrested on suspicion of first-degree robbery, second-degree assault, first-degree theft, second-degree burglary, unlawful use of a weapon and unlawful use of a motor vehicle.

Baer, arrested on suspicion of the same crimes plus reckless endangerment, pointing a firearm at another and being a felon in possession of a firearm, remained in custody with bail set at $10,000, according to the inmate list. He appeared in court Monday morning on the charge of felon in possession of a firearm. He was formerly convicted of dealing drugs in Butte County, California, in 2012, court documents said.

“Between now and next Monday, we’ll present the entire case to the Deschutes County grand jury,” District Attorney Steve Gunnels said.

Baer is scheduled to appear in court again on Dec. 18 on the felon in possession charge.