A man suspected of stabbing a Clark College employee in a random attack was arrested Thursday morning while sleeping in a stolen car parked about a half-mile from campus, police said.
Vancouver police officers were following up on a tip when they arrested Salvador Aguilar as he slept in a car parked at a residence in the 2600 block of St. Johns Boulevard, police said.
Aguilar, 31, is accused of approaching a woman Tuesday and stabbing her in the neck without provocation as she sat outside the Archer Gallery. The woman survived the attack. Police also linked him to another encounter on Monday when a woman sitting in her car in a campus parking lot reported being accosted by a stranger.
Aguilar is being held in the Clark County Jail on charges of first-degree assault and motor vehicle theft, as well as an arrest warrant on separate allegations of burglary, disorderly conduct and malicious mischief in December.
In that incident, Augilar is accused of breaking into a stranger’s home on Northeast 117th Avenue in Vancouver and trashing the place, court records show.
At the time, he told police he had entered the home “because it was cold last night,” saying he was homeless, according to a probable cause affidavit.
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