Portland police say a 24-year-old man randomly attacked two strangers minutes apart last Tuesday in Southeast Portland.
Santos Puerto-Rios of Portland is accused of throwing a “sucker punch” at a 21-year-old man sitting at a bus stop on Southeast Division Street and 122nd Avenue around 8:30 a.m. on Nov. 25, police wrote in a probable cause affidavit. The man had a cut under his left eye and a bloody lip, police said.
A woman who witnessed the alleged assault flagged down a patrol officer who spotted Puerto-Rios and arrested him. He was booked in Multnomah County jail and released the same day. He then failed to appear in court Friday.
That same day, a family member of a 69-year-old woman belatedly reported that she had been punched and knocked to the ground by a stranger as she took out her garbage on Southeast 122nd Avenue. She said it happened 15 minutes before the alleged assault at the bus stop.
Police identified Puerto-Rios as the suspect in this additional case and re-arrested him at his home on Southeast 122nd Avenue this Tuesday.
He was still in jail as of 7 p.m. on allegations of fourth-degree misdemeanor assault.
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