Things got crazy during rush hour on the MAX yesterday.

At 5:15 pm, Portland Police responded to a report of a stabbing on a westbound MAX train:

Officers spoke with dozens of witnesses and learned that the suspect and victim began arguing on the westbound MAX train. The suspect pulled out a knife and stabbed the victim, then exited the train at Southwest 2nd and Morrison. The victim remained on the train and witnesses called 9-1-1. The train stopped at the Pioneer Place Transit Station, located at Southwest 4th-5th and Morrison, and medical personnel responded to treat the victim.

The suspect is described as a 28-30 year old black male, clean shaven, thin muscular build, white baseball cap, white t-shirt, black puffy jacket, and blue jeans.

Westbound MAX service was disrupted for approximately 45 minutes.

The victim was a 44-year-old man from Hillsboro. He’s in stable condition as of this morning.

Sarah Shay Mirk reported on transportation, sex and gender issues, and politics at the Mercury from 2008-2013. They have gone on to make many things, including countless comics and several books.

10 replies on “Whoa, MAX Train Stabbing!”

  2. @ thereminizer,

    Sweet lord. “If we’re going to have fashionable public transport and if we’re going to client ethnic groups whose vices are celebrated as virtues, then we’re going to have random murders of innocent civilians.”

    Our trolls are waaaay better than OL’s trolls.

  3. Thanks CC!

    I recently saw couple of dudes spill off the MAX at that very stop about to come to blows. Something about an insult to one’s “old lady” and refusal to apologize for said insult. I got on the train and didn’t see the throw down. But they didn’t strike me as the stabbing sort.

  4. Judging by the automatic racist-baiting & subsequent instantaneous flaming of a stabbing incident that just happened yesterday (refering the the OL post), it seems clear that whenever a black man is accused or is alledged to have done something wrong, he isn’t simply a man but a BLACK man who did something wrong. Whites truely don’t know how good they have it.

  5. @ Damosa, “Whites truely don’t know how good they have it.”

    Some of us do – for example, 3 days a week I sport my applique vest which says “White People – We’re In The Catbird Seat!”

    I don’t have to tell you that it’s festooned with dead robins.

  6. You’re probaby right. Even walking around downtown wearing a vest festooned with dead robin birds, a white guy is unlikely to get stopped by police.

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