Two try to stop man from harassing Muslim woman; get stabbed to death

A man fatally stabbed two passengers aboard a Portland train after they tried to stop him from harassing two women who appeared to be Muslim, the police said, identifying the arrested assailant as Jeremy Joseph Christian (35), a convicted felon

Ricky Best

A man fatally stabbed two passengers aboard a Portland train after they tried to stop him from harassing two women who appeared to be Muslim, the police said, identifying the arrested assailant as Jeremy Joseph Christian (35), a convicted felon.

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Taliesin Namkai-Meche

"It's too early to say if was an act of domestic terrorism or a federal hate crime," Loren Cannon, special agent in charge of the FBI in Oregon said.

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Jeremy Christian

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Christian started shouting ethnic and religious slurs at the women, one of whom wore a Muslim head-covering. Three men who intervened were stabbed. Ricky John Best (53) of Happy Valley died on the spot, while Taliesin Namkai Meche (23) of Southeast Portland died at a hospital, the police said. The third, Micah Fletcher, is in a local hospital.

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