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["500px"]To Portlanders, in a adventure about heroes, George Elwood Tschaggeny was a villain.
In surveillance video and photos beheld far and wide, a man is apparent walking off with a backpack in the anarchy of aftermost month's appalling MAX attack. It belonged to Ricky Best, one of three men stabbed – two fatally – while aggravating to assure two girls from a man shouting ancestral epithets at them. In accession to the pack, it was afterwards apparent the bandit had taken the bells arena off Best's feel as he lay bleeding to death.
That man, badge say, was Tschaggeny.
But those who knew him say that, afore addiction destroyed his life, George Elwood Tschaggeny would accept been one of the heroes who stood up on the train.
That may assume doubtful to those who followed the story. The 51-year-old became, in the public's eye, the being who committed the unfeeling, "completely heartless" act, as badge characterized it. He was arrested June 2 at a baby abandoned affected abreast Interstate 84. He was cutting Best's bells band.
Known as "Elwood" by accompany and family, Tschaggeny was already a hero himself, accustomed by badge in 2010 with a noncombatant badge for endlessly a coffer bandit armed with a knife.
He was the array of guy who'd cull over on the artery to advice a motorcyclist afterwards a crash, put the motorcycle in his barter and drive the afflicted biker to a doctor – like he did in 1998.
He was a aggressive veteran, like Best, who lived in North Tabor with his wife and their bristles dogs. He admired hiking, biking and Westerns.
That's the man his ex-wife remembers, afore the painkillers assigned for a knee abrasion affronted into an addiction, aboriginal with pills, afresh heroin.
"Not in my wildest dreams would I anytime brainstorm he'd be adverse what he's facing," she said. "This is aloof not him."
The Oregonian/OregonLive is not anecdotic Tschaggeny's ex-wife at her appeal for assurance reasons, as she has a careful adjustment adjoin him.
She aboriginal met Tschaggeny in 1997, anon afterwards he confused to Oregon from his hometown Salt Lake City. She formed with his mother, who alien the brace at a Thanksgiving celebration.
Three years later, they were married, on April Fools' Day 2000.
For the abutting 16 years, Tschaggeny's ex-wife remembers, they congenital a abundant activity together.
["500px"]Tschaggeny alien her to Australian shepherds, and soon, they had four – Chris the Dog, Darwin, Howl E. Bones and Ted-E – additional one Jack Russell terrier, Jack Jack.
They spent their canicule hiking, abundance biking and appropriation weights. At home, their TV was consistently acquainted to the Western cine channel. Tschaggeny tended to the rose garden in their backyard and, every day, he fabricated his wife cafeteria for assignment and afresh alone her off.
Tschaggeny was accustomed by badge in June 2010 for endlessly a coffer bandit a few months earlier, Portland badge agent Sgt. Pete Simpson said. The bandit led badge on a car chase, afresh comatose into a bus at Providence Hospital. The bandit ran into a adjacent neighborhood.
Tschaggeny, who was in his advanced backyard of his home with addition man, Scott Morales, saw the bandit with a knife in his duke active from officers. They chased him bottomward and took him to the ground, captivation him there until badge could arrest him.
The awards commemoration acclaimed the men's "courageous and selfless" actions.
Tschaggeny formed in acreage administration afterwards a assignment in construction. According to cloister documents, Tschaggeny said he was self-employed, affairs and affairs property. But, his ex-wife said, he dreamed of the two of them aperture a breakfast restaurant, area he could accomplish his signature omelets.
"It was aloof a blessed life," she said.
Then his knees got worse.
Tschaggeny started activity to a dispensary for knee affliction he still had from injuries he'd gotten as a child. To advice him accord with the pain, his ex-wife said, the dispensary assigned him pills.
"That's how it all began," she said.
The change happened slowly. Tschaggeny's ex-wife noticed he was affronted and not absorbed in their accepted activities.
At some point, admitting his ex-wife isn't absolutely abiding when, he began to use heroin.
Four in bristles new heroin users appear they started out abusing decree pills, according to a 2016 report by the American Society of Addiction Medicine. Many say they affronted to heroin because it's cheaper and easier to access than decree opioids, the address says.
Tschaggeny would be in and out of adjust at atomic four times in about bristles years, his ex-wife said. But anniversary time, he would accede to addiction.
["500px"]"He consistently said, 'It calls you, it calls you, it calls you,'" his ex-wife remembered. "And every time commodity let him bottomward or he let addition down, it led him aback into this abysmal hole."
In February 2015, she filed for divorce, citation "irreconcilable differences," cloister abstracts show. She told The Oregonian/OregonLive that she filed because of his addiction.
In April 2015, Tschaggeny went to a adjust affairs in Palm Desert, California, according to a 2015 bastille account and his ex-wife.
After he returned, the brace approved to reconcile. For a time, Tschaggeny seemed to be better, his ex-wife said.
"He was so appreciative of himself for accomplishing that and accepting over it," she said.
But aback he started acting affronted and blue anon after, she doubtable he was application drugs again.
She filed a abstinent adjustment adjoin him in June 2015, cloister annal show.
His aboriginal arrest came a few weeks afterwards for crooked use of a motor agent and trespassing. In an account with bastille staff, he said he wasn't application heroin at the time but had been application circadian until his afresh completed adjust program. He additionally said he was afresh diagnosed with bipolar ataxia and ADHD.
The annulment was accomplished in May 2016, according to cloister records. Afterwards that, his ex-wife said, he became homeless.
It was devastating, she said, but she couldn't advice him.
He was arrested afresh in September 2016, cloister annal show, this time for attempted burglary. He told bastille agents he'd been abandoned for six weeks and hadn't acclimated drugs back April 2015. He said he had been active by a janitorial aggregation for a few weeks but had been unemployed for a brace months.
Earlier this year, Tschaggeny pleaded accusable to crooked use of a agent in Washington County on Feb. 17.
His bastille mug shots from 2015 to 2017 appearance a abiding concrete abasement accepted amid bodies absorbed to drugs.
After his arrest in the MAX theft, Tschaggeny beneath to allege to bastille agents during his assimilation interview, cloister annal show.
["500px"]Portland badge said Tschaggeny took Best's accouterments as bodies approved to advice the cutting victims: Best, Taliesin Namkai-Meche, 23, and Micah Fletcher, 21. Namkai-Meche, like Best, died from his wounds. Fletcher survived.
Detectives did not apperceive whether Tschaggeny was on the MAX during the cutting or came on afterward.
Tschaggeny's sister, Camille, believes her brother's gut acknowledgment was to try to advice Best, but he took Best's accouterments aback he accomplished he could not.
"Elwood did a atrocious act that atrocious bodies do," she said.
She thinks the government bootless her brother by not accouterment added assets for brainy bloom and opioid addiction. She beneath to animadversion further.
Tschaggeny's ex-wife said annihilation excuses the abomination badge say he committed. He should accept to face the after-effects of his actions, she said. But, she said, afore his addiction, he would accept never done annihilation like this.
Still, she has achievement that her ex-husband will get the advice he needs and assuredly exhausted his addiction.
"He's aloof not that person," she said, "and he doesn't appetite to be that person."
Lynne Palombo of The Oregonian/OregonLive agents contributed to this report.
An beforehand adaptation of this commodity afield declared Tschaggeny was arrested June 3.
— Samantha Matsumoto
smatsumoto@oregonian.com
503-294-4001; @SMatsumoto55
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