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portland: Anti-Muslim slurs lead to triple stabbing on Portland train Ricky John Best, 53, of Happy Valley, Ore., died at the scene and 23-year old Taliesin Myrddin Namkai Meche of Portland died at a hospital, according to CBC. Micah David-Cole Fletcher, 21, of Portland was also stabbed in the attack. The suspect, Jeremy Christian, 35, was previously charged in a criminal complaint with nine felony counts stemming from the May 26 incident, in which he is accused of yelling racial and ethnic slurs at two African-American teenage girls, one wearing a Muslim head scarf, then attacking three fellow passengers who intervened. Portland's Oregonian newspaper reported the indictment charges Christian with 15 counts in all, including two counts of murder. '962018883597', 'playlist Selector' 'container Selector' ' container43902178', 'ciid' 'caffeine14149560' ; Oregon train stabbing suspect makes defiant court appearance0 28 Reuters was unable to immediately obtain a copy of the indictment itself, and the prosecutor's office declined to give any further details. Christian approached the girls while screaming at them, Hudson told the newspaper, relaying an account her daughter had given her. Dyjuana Hudson, the mother of one of the girls harassed, told The Oregonian her 16-year-old daughter, who is black, boarded the train with a Muslim friend, also a teenager, who was wearing a hijab. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.