A Vancouver man is accused of kidnapping a stranger late Wednesday outside the Hazel Dell Walmart and then violently raping him at a nearby motel.
Devin A. Brown, 19, appeared Thursday in Clark County Superior Court on suspicion of first-degree kidnapping, first-degree rape, indecent liberties, second-degree assault and first-degree robbery. He is scheduled to be arraigned Jan. 2 on the charges.
Judge Robert Lewis held Brown on $200,000 bail. He appointed Vancouver attorney Gregg Schile to defend Brown against the charges.
Court documents say that Brown approached the 18-year-old victim outside the store at 9000 N.E. Highway 99 and asked him if he wanted to buy drugs. Brown then allegedly told the victim that he was robbing him and that he had a knife and gun. The victim told Clark County sheriff’s deputies that he offered to give Brown all of the valuables he had if Brown wouldn’t hurt him.