2 more held in footbridge attack

Two more suspects have been arrested on suspicion of attempted murder for an attack last weekend in which they allegedly drove a Vancouver man to Moulton Falls Park, beat him, threw him over a footbridge and left him for dead.

Jeremiah D. Anderson, 19, was arrested Thursday and booked into the Clark County Jail. He made his first court appearance Friday in Clark County Superior Court. Bail was set at $500,000 and arraignment was set for Nov. 14.

On Friday, officers from the Vancouver Police Department arrested Shawn W. Rogers, 18, after acquaintances called 911 to turn him in. Officers turned Rogers over to detectives from the Clark County Sheriff’s Office, said Sheriff’s Sgt. Scott Schanaker.

A third suspect, Michael J. Harvey, 24, was arrested Wednesday and made his court appearance Thursday. He’s also in the Clark County Jail on $500,000 bail.

The attack was apparently gang-related.

Schanaker said Harvey is affiliated with skinheads, and that Anderson and Rogers are affiliated with the Juggalos.

The victim, Joshua Smith, told detectives that he, too, has been involved with the Juggalos for years.

Schanaker said the brutal beating appears to have been an “enforcement action” against Smith for violating gang rules, but said it’s not clear which rules were violated.

“Juggalos” are followers of the Detroit rap/horror group Insane Clown Posse. Juggalos have been arrested for violent crimes across the country.

According to court documents, Smith told a detective that around midnight Nov. 1, he was on Fourth Plain Boulevard when the suspects drove up and told him to get in their car because somebody wanted to speak with him. He said he was driven to Moulton Falls Park, about three miles south of Yacolt. Everyone was drinking beer when one of the suspects initiated the assault by smashing a bottle over his head, Smith said.

After he was beaten, he said, the suspects left. In the early-morning hours of Nov. 2, Smith flagged down a motorist on Northeast Lucia Falls Road. Smith was treated at Southwest Washington Medical Center for a punctured lung and stab wounds.

Stephanie Rice: 360-735-4549 or stephanie.rice@columbian.com.