If you’re like me, you didn’t know that a man named Mohammed Adan in June 2022 allegedly killed his girlfriend, Rachael Abraham in their children’s bedroom while their children were in the house.
That Adan allegedly continued to stabb and beat Abraham even after she had died.
That the children were, apparently, in the house with Adan and Abraham’s corpse for hours until the police arrived.
That the alleged murder occurred after Adan had been previously charged with strangling and other assaults on Abraham and had been let out with no bail for those charges multiple times. And that, just prior to the alleged murder, Adan was sprung from jail on his latest set of charges involving Abraham with a $2,000 bail payment from a Portland nonprofit that described itself as “a volunteer-run abolitionist organization currently dedicated to reducing harms perpetuated against our Black, Brown and Indigenous neighbors[.]” Adan is, and Abraham was, Black.
Nancy Rommelmann, writer for Reason magazine and other outlets (including her own Substack) and former Portland resident, wrote a story for the Washington Examiner titled “A Murder in Portland,” which details Adan and Abraham’s story in tear-jerking detail. In this episode, I talk to Nancy about that story, how it could be allowed to happen, and why the Oregon media has mostly ignored it.
Every person who lives and votes in Oregon should listen to this interview and read Nancy’s article.
Jeff
A Murder in Portland