MAX attack victims remembered four years later May 27 2021
The mother of victim Taleisin Namkai-Mech urges choose love during vigil at the Hollywood Transit Center.
Four years ago on May 26, two passengers on a MAX train were killed and another critically wounded when Jeremy Christian took out a knife and stabbed them during an altercation near the Hollywood Transit Center.
A jury unanimously convicted Christian on all 12 counts in February 2020. Then in June, Judge Cheryl Albrecht sentenced the 38-year-old to two consecutive life sentences without the possibility of parole for the murders of Taleisin Namkai-Meche and Ricky Best.
On this anniversary of the MAX attack, people gathered for a vigil and march at the Hollywood Transit Center.
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Man sentenced in fatal light rail stabbings plans to appeal
December 14, 2020 GMT
PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) A man sentenced to life in prison for killing two men and injuring another during a racist rant on a crowded Portland light-rail train is appealing his conviction.
Court records show Christian filed a notice of appeal on Dec. 2, and then requested transcripts of over 40 hearings from the case, KOIN-TV reported. The state has appointed Christian a lawyer.
In February. a jury unanimously convicted Christian on all 12 counts. Multnomah County Circuit Judge Cheryl Albrecht sentenced the 38-year-old in June to two consecutive life sentences without the possibility of parole for the murders of Taliesin Namkai-Meche, 23, and Ricky Best, 53.