PORTLAND — A man is facing federal charges after he attacked a courthouse security officer, who shot him, federal prosecutors in Oregon said.
Jett Avery Thomas, 39, has been charged with assaulting a federal employee with a dangerous weapon and causing bodily injury, the U.S. District Attorney’s Office for the District of Oregon said Wednesday in a news release.
Thomas attacked the Pioneer Courthouse security officer early Monday morning, according to a criminal complaint written by FBI agent Joseph Youngblood.
Thomas charged up the courthouse steps, forced his way inside and punched the officer multiple times in the head, the complaint said. Thomas then forced the officer outside, where he continued to punch him, placed him in a chokehold and hit him in the head with the officer’s handheld radio, according to the complaint.