EUGENE, Ore. — The victim of a reported robbery and pistol-whipping Tuesday morning is speaking out.
“By then I was getting up and I was running after him and then he hit me in the face with a pistol,” said Michael Helms, an unhoused Eugene man who was attacked in a reported gunpoint robbery and pistol-whipping that ended with the suspect being arrested at gunpoint.
The Eugene Police Department says the attacker, identified as 21-year-old Isiah Ray Holguin, reportedly robbed Helms at Washington-Jefferson Park, struck him with a gun and ran before an officer caught up with him…