Last Friday, Portland police arrested the man accused of threatening a Muslim couple in northeast Portland in late may.
Frederick Nolan Sorrell, age 49, was booked into Multnomah County Jail on three misdemeanor counts of intimidation.
Sorrell allegedly drove next to the Muslim couple for more than 20 blocks, attempting to hit their vehicle multiple times, while shouting obscenities and hate speech at them.
Sorrell also made a hand gesture, pointing at the couple, and mimicking pulling the trigger of a handgun.
The incident occurred just three days after the stabbing attack on a MAX train that left two good samaritans dead, and one critically wounded.
This is not Sorrell’s first offense. He was convicted of harassment in Yamhill County in 1998.
He also was convicted of rape in Multnomah County in 2001, and arrested for assault, harassment, and strangulation in Multnomah County in 2014. Those charges were dismissed.
To find out more, KBOO’s Doug McVay spoke with Seemab Hussaini, a representative for The Oregon committee of the Council on American-Islamic Relations, better known as CAIR-Oregon.
- KBOO