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   From: absolute.loons@portlandtribune.com   
      
   Police in Portland, Oregon, arrested a homeless man on Friday   
   morning for stealing the wedding ring and backpack of Ricky   
   Best, one of two men fatally stabbed to death last week on a   
   commuter train while defending two women.   
      
   George Tschaggeny, 51, was arrested at a homeless encampment   
   under an overpass after a tip from an employee of a Domino's   
   Pizza restaurant in the area, Portland Police Bureau officials   
   said at a Friday press conference.   
      
   Police had released surveillance footage on Thursday of a man   
   carrying Best's backpack leaving the Portland MAX commuter train   
   shortly after the stabbings.   
      
   Tschaggeny was found wearing Best's ring, which he apparently   
   had removed from Best's finger after the stabbing, said police   
   spokesman Pete Simpson.   
      
   Police also recovered the backpack but Best's wallet was   
   missing, Simpson said, adding that his family had hoped to   
   recover phone numbers Best carried in the wallet.   
      
   Tschaggeny will be charged with theft, evidence tampering and   
   abuse of a corpse, Simpson said.   
      
   Best, Taliesin Myrddin Namkai-Meche and Micah Fletcher were   
   stabbed on May 26 when they intervened to prevent Jeremy Joseph   
   Christian, 35, from harassing two young women who appeared to be   
   Muslim by shouting ethnic and religious slurs. Best and Namkai-   
   Meche died of their wounds.   
      
   Christian was arraigned on Tuesday on three felony murder   
   charges, one felony assault charge, three felony weapons charges   
   and two misdemeanor counts of intimidation.   
      
   In court on Tuesday, Christian shouted, "Death to the enemies of   
   America ... You call it terrorism. I call it patriotism.”   
      
   Federal Bureau of Investigation spokeswoman Beth Anne Steele   
   said earlier this week that the bureau is investigating the   
   attack to determine whether to charge Christian with terrorism   
   or a federal hate crime.   
      
   Immediately after the attack, the Council on American-Islamic   
   Relations called on President Donald Trump to condemn violence   
   against Muslims.   
      
   In a Monday tweet, Trump called the attack "unacceptable," and   
   commended the stabbing victims for "standing up to hate and   
   intolerance."   
      
   According to The Oregonian, a witness to the stabbings said   
   Namkai-Meche’s last words before being taken away by paramedics   
   were, “Tell everyone on this train I love them."   
      
   http://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-muslims-portland-   
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