A man suffered multiple wounds Monday when he was attacked with a machete and robbed of his bicycle at a homeless camp in Hazel Dell, according to the Clark County Sheriff’s Office.
The incident was reported about 5:45 p.m. behind a business in the 800 block of Northeast Minnehaha Street. Multiple witnesses reported an altercation between two men in a homeless encampment during which one of the men began striking the other with a machete, according to a sheriff’s office statement.
The statement said the attacker in the case rode away on a bicycle before deputies arrived to find Ronnie Anderson, 40, of Vancouver suffering from multiple injuries. He was transported to a hospital with what was later determined to be minor tissue wounds, the statement said.
Deputies later located and arrested a suspect in the attack, 41-year-old Frank Rios of Vancouver, according to the statement, which said at the time of his arrest, he still had the machete and a bicycle he had allegedly stolen from Anderson.
