Someone stole MAX attack victim's wedding ring, backpack

Source: Oregon Live

Police are asking for help finding a man suspected of stealing the wedding ring and backpack of one of Friday's MAX stabbing attack victims.

The ring and backpack belong to Rick Best, one of two men slain in the attack, police said. Best, 53, was a father, Army veteran, city of Portland employee and onetime candidate for Clackamas County commissioner.

He was headed home to Happy Valley when he and others came to the aid of two girls who were the target of Jeremy Joseph Christian's racist vitriol, according to police and witnesses. Christian is accused of pulling a knife and striking three men who came to the girls' defense, killing two of them.

Police have released surveillance images and video of the suspect. The video shows him leaving the train while holding two backpacks — one of which belongs to Best and contained personal items that are important to his family, police said. Police don't know who the other backpack belongs to.