A 50-year-old man killed late Tuesday in Clackamas County lived with the suspect in his stabbing death, deputies said.
The county sheriff’s office identified Matthew Nelson Timmons as the homicide victim in a news release Thursday. Dean Christian Boettcher, 51, is suspected of stabbing him multiple times, killing him. Deputies said a warrant has been issued for Boettcher’s arrest. He’s still at large.
The men lived together at a home near Gladstone. Boettcher has a criminal history that includes a 2001 first-degree assault conviction for beating his former boss with a claw hammer.
He was also convicted in 2001 of third-degree sex abuse after he inappropriately touched a 16-year-old girl, according to Clackamas County Community Corrections records.
