Matthew Irwin
A California man was arrested on attempted murder and assault charges Friday, after a citizen reported seeing a “severely beaten” woman being loaded into the back of an SUV in the McDonald’s parking lot on Cascade Avenue in Hood River.
Matthew Irwin, 41, was booked Friday in Northern Oregon Regional Corrections Facility. His girlfriend was transported by ambulance to Legacy Emmanuel Hospital in Portland with life-threatening injuries.
She was in a coma at the hospital as of Tuesday, Hood River County District Attorney John Sewell said in court.
Irwin was formally charged with first degree assault in court Tuesday. The attempted murder charge didn't surface in court that day.
Officers with Hood River Police received a call Friday from a citizen who reportedly saw a badly injured woman being put into the back of a white Nissan Xterra parked in the McDonald’s restaurant lot at 2101 Cascade Ave., police said a late Sunday news release.
Police responded and found Irwin's girlfriend in the backseat. She needed medical attention, police said, and an ambulance took her to the Portland hospital in critical condition.
Authorities believe the assault took place on Thursday evening somewhere near WaNaPa Street in Cascade Locks, according to the news release.
On Tuesday, Irwin appeared via video feed from NORCOR before Judge John A. Olson. Connor Sullivan of local law firm Morris, Starns and Sullivan was appointed to represent Irwin.
Details of the alleged assault weren’t discussed in court, but Sewell said Irwin had a criminal history with 38 arrests in California, as well as charges of violating several restraining orders.
Court records show Irwin was accused of causing serious physical injury to his girlfriend by means of an "automobile dash board, a dangerous weapon" in Hood River County.
Olson set Irwin’s bail at $50,000 and scheduled Irwin’s next court appearance for June 8 at 11 a.m.
Irwin faces up to 20 years in prison if found guilty of the first degree assault charge.
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