“Needed to soar off my bike and take cowl in some bushes on one in all their assaults.”
Two weeks in the past we obtained a troubling textual content from a reader who mentioned they’d been attacked by drivers a number of occasions whereas using up North Williams Avenue late at evening. The individual needed extra individuals to know in case the suspects have achieved comparable issues to different individuals. (It additionally jogged my memory of a street rage incident we reported in December of final 12 months that occurred only a block over on North Vancouver.)
The reader (who desires to stay nameless) owns a bar and rides their bike house after closing. Up to now few months they are saying they’ve been attacked twice and sprayed with a pellet gun whereas using up the road. “Each occasions the automobile would circle [back] and shoot at me,” they wrote.
The primary time was a couple of month in the past and it occurred whereas they have been biking north on Williams simply previous Skidmore. They are saying somebody driving a Toyota Camry four-door hit them and one other rider and made two extra passes earlier than the riders have been capable of elude the automobile north of the Killingsworth intersection (which is one-way solely).
They determined to achieve out after their second assault as a result of it was a lot worse than the primary one. They have been attacked thrice by the identical driver (in a Chevy Tahoe SUV), beginning on NE seventh and Tillamook, then on Tillamook between MLK and Williams, after which once more whereas using north on Williams.
Right here’s the way it went down:
“I used to be actually being hunted by a Chevy Tahoe that was full of individuals yelling ‘We’re going to kill you m’fer!!’ Critically was scared for my life. Needed to soar off my bike and take cowl in some bushes on one in all their assaults after which take invasive [sic] maneuvers and alter my route house to flee.”
The bike rider says the car didn’t have a license plate, however they nonetheless reported the incident to the Portland Police non-emergency line. We adopted up with PPB and so they confirmed the report.
If this sort of factor has occurred to you, please be certain to name it into the police so we have now some report and knowledge to trace how typically it occurs. For the rider who shared their story with us, we’re simply pleased they weren’t critically injured.
“I simply suppose different late evening cyclists have to know and be ready,” they shared. “North Williams now has bandits looking cyclists late at evening!”
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