the volunteer deputy 's records had been falsified emerged `` almost immediately '' from multiple sources after bates killed eric harris on april 2 , reporter dylan goforth said .
the newspaper 's story does not say who allegedly asked the supervisors to falsify the training records or why .
but the orders apparently started years ago , before harris ' death , `` back when -lrb- bates -rrb- was trying to get on as a deputy , '' reporter ziva branstetter ``