A 44-year-old man is facing decades in prison nearly seven years Following a deadly attack in Oregon, prosecutors said.
Thomas Robert Colon was convicted of second-degree murder in the 2018 death of Andrew Hathaway, according to a March 14 news release from the Multnomah County District Attorney’s Office.
Prosecutors allege that Colon beat and stabbed Hathaway, 28, during a confrontation in September 2018.
Hathaway proceeded to a home “where two other men were living and Colon was visiting,” and “that evening all four men were using drugs and high,” according to prosecutors.
Hathaway was stabbed 55 times and slashed six times, according to prosecutors.
“At one point,” according to prosecutors, Colon and Hathaway were left alone and started to fight.
“One of the other men later said that Colon was winning the fight and Hathaway was screaming for help. The other men broke up the fight and things calmed down for a time,” prosecutors said. But then “the fight started up again and Hathaway was bloodied. It briefly stopped for a second time but then continued with Colon beating and stabbing Hathaway until he was dead,” prosecutors said.
Hathaway was stabbed 55 times and slashed six times, according to prosecutors.
According to prosecutors, Colon and another of the men placed Hathaway’s body in the trunk of his own car, parked it in a vacant lot, and set it on fire. Hathaway’s body was discovered mostly “charred,” according to prosecutors.
According to the statement, Senior Deputy District Attorney Shawn Overstreet believes the conviction provides “some justice for the Hathaway family.”
“I’m glad we could finally bring them some closure,” Overstreet said in the release, describing the investigation as “lengthy” and saying it involved “lots of misdirection from others in the beginning.”
Colon was convicted of second-degree murder in a trial and pleaded guilty to second-degree arson, second-degree mistreatment of a corpse, and tampering with physical evidence, according to prosecutors.
He is scheduled to be sentenced on Wednesday, March 19, and faces life in prison, according to prosecutors. Prosecutors said he’d have to serve 25 years before being eligible for parole.
