Portland police arrested a 47-year-old man Saturday whom they suspect caused the shooting death of another man on a TriMet bus earlier this month.
Police arrested Wayne Thompson Saturday afternoon on Southeast 122nd Avenue and Southeast Stark Street after receiving a tip from a community member, according to police. He was arrested without incident, police said.
Police publicly identified Thompson a week ago and asked the public for help identifying him.
Thomspon is suspected of fatally shooting Adrian Anastacio Richardson, 44, on a bus Aug. 8 near Southeast Hawthorne Boulevard and 26th Avenue after he got into a confrontation with a woman riding the bus.
Richardson had been homeless for more than a decade and used the bus as an air-conditioned refuge to escape the heat, his sister Lauren Krueger told The Oregonian/OregonLive.
He confronted a woman on the bus, accusing her of being racist and yelled at her for being white, the woman told a clerk at Hawthorne Market. Richardson was Black and Latino, according to his sister.
The woman got off the bus early because she felt threatened and stepped into the market visually frazzled, the clerk said. According to the clerk, the woman said she told the man on the bus that she had been born in Chile and spoke Spanish fluently, but he kept yelling at her.
The shooting occurred on the bus about 5:30 p.m. Aug. 8. Thompson got off the bus and fled after the shooting, police said.
Krueger said police told her that her brother wasn’t armed and didn’t get physical with the woman on the bus.
Thompson was booked into the Multnomah County Detention Center on charges of second-degree murder and felon in possession of firearm.
In 2010, Thompson was sentenced to probation and anger counseling for third-degree assault for injuring a cyclist as he backed up his car in a Northeast Portland parking lot in 2009.
-- Jack Forrest
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