Wilsonville Spokesman Online

Man attacked at the door of his apartment

Suspects left the scene with victim's neighbor

• By: Michelle Te  
• Published: 11/2/2009 2:43:56 PM

Police are searching for four male adults who attacked a man after causing a disturbance on his apartment patio.

On Oct. 24, at about 10:26, Wilsonville deputies were dispatched to 9300 block, S.W. Bailey Street, regarding a fight in the front of an apartment. The suspects, described as Hispanic males, already had left in a red Ford 150 pickup.

After briefly searching for the vehicle, deputies responded to the victim, who told police he heard someone messing with his children’s bicycles on the patio of his apartment.

He told police he opened the sliding glass door and saw four Hispanic males on the patio. He asked them what they were doing and they started getting very defensive, asking him why they were being accused of stealing the bicycles.

The man closed his glass door, but the suspects didn’t leave. Instead they went to the front door and started pounding on it and kicking it. When he opened the door to tell them to leave, the four men attacked the victim.

“(The victim) said he was pushed and punched and eventually got knocked down to the ground on his front porch,” wrote Deputy Anthony Edwards of the Clackamas County Sheriff’s Office. “He said he got kicked a few times while he was down.”

Soon, the victim’s neighbor came outside and started pulling off the suspects from the victim. After the fighting stopped, the neighbor escorted all the suspects into his pickup and left the scene.

While police were interviewing the victim, the neighbor in the red pickup returned. He told police he heard the fighting and was just trying to help out his neighbor. He said he had worked with one of the men, but didn’t have any more information about him.

“He said he got the suspects into his vehicle and drove them away from the apartments to keep them from attacking his neighbor again,” said Deputy Edwards. “He said he did it to protect his neighbor.”
He said he took dropped off the suspects at a nearby grocery store.

The victim told police he thought his neighbor was lying and drove them away to keep them from getting in trouble with the police.

Then the victim and the neighbor got into a verbal argument in Spanish, and police separated them before a physical confrontation began.

Anyone with information regarding the suspects should contact the Wilsonville police department at 503-682-1012.

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