PORTLAND, Ore. (KOIN) — A man who stabbed a 17-year-old boy in a random attack in February was sentenced to nearly 6 years in prison.
The boy was walking with a friend near NE 11th and NE Glisan when Carlos Nampula-Cruz, 38, approached and started speaking to him in Spanish, the Multnomah County District Attorney’s office said. Then Nampula-Cruz stabbed him in the shoulder without warning.
According to court documents, he had also threatened to stab several other people before he attacked the boy.
“No one should ever have to experience something like this, especially a 17-year-old high school student who was walking with his friend to get an after school snack,” Multnomah County Deputy District Attorney Todd Jackson said in a press release. “This was a random, unprovoked attack that occurred less than a block away from a place where everyone should feel safe, a high school.”
Nampula-Cruz pleaded guilty to one county attempted 2nd-degree assault, unlawful use of a weapon, 2nd-degree assault and first-degree criminal mischief.