Portland bat spree’s crazy arrest ends

The man saw the stars while lying on the ground and was knocked out by the impact of a stranger’s baseball bat.

The victim heard the words of a 53-year-old man he had never seen before. This is your disrespect to me.

That was only the beginning of the bat attack craze for several hours. When the police looked for him, the criminals allegedly attacked more people three times.

Portland police arrested Trenlon Brewer on Wednesday and repeatedly reported that someone had attacked someone with a baseball bat and then caught up with him. Brewer was sentenced to jail for nine counts, including seven felonies.

Court records show that Brewer has been prosecuted four times since October, including an allegation of assaulting a person with him to obtain food in a homeless shelter. The allegations related to the case were dismissed.

The night̵

7;s activities began on Tuesday, when a male police officer believed to be Brewer, hit another man in the head with a baseball bat on the 1100 Northeast Martin Luther King Avenue block. A summary of the incident provided by the Portland Police Department on Saturday showed that the victim described the person who beat him to the police, but the police could not find a match.

About 1 1/2 hours later, around midnight, two women got off the MAX train at Rosa Park Station. The police said that the victim told them that Brewer walked up to them, muttered to himself, and beat them several times. both. , On the back and head. According to court records, these women were left with “severe head, back and shoulder pain” and needed to travel to the hospital.

Similarly, the officer could not find the suspected attacker.

According to the police department’s incident summary, late Wednesday morning, multiple people called the police, stating that a man was using a baseball bat to attack people in the 500th block of Everett Street in the northeast. Northeast Portland, the river where Brewer was allegedly the night before. The caller’s description of the man’s clothing and appearance matched what the police had heard from the victim the previous night.

The police could not find the assailant or any victims.

In the end, another phone call came around noon, describing the same thing: According to court records, a man attacked people with a baseball bat. According to the police’s summary of the incident, Brewer was wearing a backpack with a baseball bat when the police found him.

Allegedly, after Brewer beat the police officer in the face, arresters needed help from onlookers to detain Brewer.

-Fedor Zarkhin