PORTLAND Ore. (KPTV) – State troopers arrested a 51-year-old man Thursday on Interstate 5 in connection with the deadly beating of a woman inside a Northwest District apartment earlier this week, authorities said.
Louis J. Chlumak, of Portland, was taken into custody around 3:20 p.m. along I-5 near milepost 236. Oregon State Police stopped Chlumak’s car before handing him over to Portland police detectives. He was booked into the Multnomah County Detention Center on suspicion of second-degree murder and unlawful use of a weapon.
Officers and firefighters initially found 63-year-old Vernetta G. Fish dead inside an apartment on the 600 block of Northwest 18th Avenue around 12:30 p.m. Wednesday after receiving a report of an assault…