‘Blood on your hands’: Man to serve 25 years after deadly stabbing at Clackamas apartment

PORTLAND, Ore. (KOIN) – A man who fatally stabbed someone in the heart in Clackamas and later beat a jail inmate will serve 25 years in prison.

Eliazar Martinez-Rodriguez, 35, was sentenced for assaulting a jail inmate while charged with murdering 30-year-old Jefferson Smith Cates.

Martinez-Rodriguez killed Cates in June 2024. According to officials, Martinez-Rodriguez and Cates were romantically involved with the same woman…

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