September 19, 2024
Today, Multnomah County District Attorney Mike Schmidt announced that Koryn Daniel Kraemer, 25, has entered a new plea in regard to a January 2023 incident in which he was charged with Assault in the Second Degree.
The original incident occurred shortly after 2:00am on January 3, 2023, at TriMet’s Cleveland MAX Station off Northeast 8th Street in Gresham. The incident occurred while MAX service was not running. Kraemer approached a 78-year-old man on the platform and, in the course of the assault, bit the victim repeatedly on the face causing serious injuries.
Today, in a hearing in front of Judge Shelley Russell, Kraemer pled guilty to the lesser-included offense of Attempted Assault II. Deputy District Attorneys Julian Samuels and Sean Hughey represented the state in this case. The sentence requires that Kraemer serve 40 months in prison followed by 20 months of post-prison supervision. As he has substantial family support out-of-state, he has expressed an intention to apply to serve his term of post-prison supervision elsewhere.
Kraemer will remain in the custody of the Oregon Department of Corrections for the remainder of his imposed sentence. In January 2023, TriMet issued a lifetime ban for Kraemer.
*Original Release: January 4, 2023*
DA Mike Schmidt announces arraignment of Koryn Kraemer, 25, for assault
PORTLAND, Oregon – Today, Multnomah County District Attorney Mike Schmidt announced that Koryn Daniel Kraemer, 25, has been charged with Assault in the Second Degree.
The charge stems from an incident shortly after 2:00 am on January 3, on the Cleveland TriMet MAX platform area off Northeast 8th Street in Gresham. Kraemer allegedly approached a man, 78, at the platform and physically attacked him. Kraemer allegedly bit and chewed off the victim’s ear and some skin in the area of the victim’s ear and face.
Gresham police officers and Multnomah County Sheriff’s Office deputies responded to the incident and arrested Kraemer. In a subsequent interview with law enforcement, Kraemer stated that he believed the victim was a “robot” trying to kill him based on how the victim smelled. Kraemer further stated that he spit out the flesh of the victim that he had consumed and that the responding law enforcement had saved his life by separating him from “the robot”. He admitted to consuming alcohol, cannabis, and fentanyl pills.
The Multnomah County District Attorney’s Office has filed charges, including an offense for which Oregon law permits pretrial detention, and is requesting that Kraemer remain in custody and be held without bail.
A charging document is only an accusation of a crime. Kraemer is innocent unless and until proven guilty.