A man who was hit by a MAX train near Interstate 84 and Northeast 62nd Avenue has died, Portland police said Saturday.
The Portland Police Bureau, which did not identify the man, said he was in their custody earlier that day before being released because of COVID-19 restrictions on which charges warrant booking a person in jail.
The day’s events began around noon, when the man went up the stairs of a residential property and “stood over” a woman, per the account she gave police. The woman told the intruder to leave, which he did, but only after her husband and son came to help.
A responding officer found the man about a block South of Hancock City Park and asked him to stop. The man and kept walking but was arrested later when more police came to the scene, the Portland Police Bureau said.
Police let him go with a citation for criminal trespass in the first degree, unable to arrest him because of COVID-19 restrictions that limit what charges land people in jail. The man got a look-over from paramedics, refused medical attention and was released by the police.
The next incident involving the man was far more grave.
Around 2:30 p.m., police learned a man was walking in traffic on both sides of Interstate 84 amd swinging a large rock and a pipe at passing cars.
Police tried to stop traffic so they could get to the scene, but it was too late: The man had run in front of a MAX train, they learned. By the time police arrived, he was dead. Officers confirmed it was the same person from the trespassing incident earlier that afternoon.
Police with release his name once they contact next of kin.
The police bureau asks that anyone who saw the incident and hasn’t already talked to investigators contact Officer Garrett Dow, at Garrett.Dow@portlandoregon.gov or 503-823-5070. The incident case number, they said, 21-152466.
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