PORTLAND, Ore. (KOIN) — The man who was stabbed in the neck with a broken glass at a Northeast Portland bar late Friday died from his wounds early Monday.
Sam Van Dyke was attacked inside the Church Bar on NE Sandy Boulevard after he confronted another man for harassing a woman over the phone. He was 31.
The suspect, Abraham Bravo, was spotted about two blocks west of the bar and placed under arrest. The 28-year-old was initially booked for second-degree assault and had an outstanding arrest warrant. Since Van Dyke’s death, those charges were upgraded to first-degree manslaughter and first-degree assault.
“I just, I can’t believe he’s not here anymore,” Sam’s mother, Jaeiah Van Dyke, told KOIN 6 News. “Teaching him to respect women, we never thought that would end up getting him killed.”
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Sam Van Dyke, the youngest of three boys, was adopted as a baby from Eswatini, a small country in southern Africa (formerly known as Swaziland)…