A man on a Portland train hurled anti-Muslim insults on a train before fatally stabbing two good samaritans who intervened in the harassment, according to Portland Police. One man was killed on the scene, while another died in a hospital. Yet another man who attempted to help was also stabbed, but his injuries are not life-threatening, police reported.

"Get off the bus, and get out of the country because you don't pay taxes here,' [he said he] doesn't like Muslims, they're criminals," the suspect reportedly said, according to a witness who spoke with KATU-TV, a local news station.

Police are still working to identify the suspect and victims, Portland Police Bureau spokesman Sgt. Pete Simpson said in a press conference recorded by KATU-TV.

Senator Jeff Merkley (D-OR):


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UPDATE (5/27/2017, 8:45 a.m.): The Portland Mercury reports that the man accused of murdering two good samaritans who stepped in during an anti-muslim tirade is a known white supremacist. Police on Saturday morning arrested Jeremy Christian on two charges of aggravated murder, one charge of attempted murder, two charges of intimidation and a weapons charge. Mercury Doug Brown reporter snapped this photo of Christian giving a Nazi salute during a right-wing rally last month:

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