MILWAUKIE, Ore. – The way deputies reconstruct the case, Timothy Welker was stepping out on his girlfriend. And then stepping out on that girlfriend. And then stepping out on that girlfriend.
So, deputies say, his three girlfriends enlisted two men to beat him with wine bottles in a home-invasion robbery.
“This was revenge,” said detective Jim Strovink, a spokesman for the Clackamas County Sheriff’s Office, after the three teenage girls were arrested on multiple charges. The two men are still sought, he said.
Strovnik said one of the suspects, Jessica Therese Hastings, 17, rushed to the hospital after Welker was beaten on Wednesday.
“When the deputies respond, she’s actually holding his hand and crying and showing all this emotion for her boyfriend,” Strovink said.
But, he said, deputies soon concluded that Hastings masterminded the assault, which involved recruiting the two men, figuring out how to break into Welker’s house and knowing when Welker would be alone and asleep in bed, Strovink said.
Welker, a security guard who works the night shift, was alone and asleep at 11:30 a.m. Wednesday when two men and two of the teens broke into the man’s home, Strovnik said.
Welker told authorities that he was asleep until a wine bottle struck his head. He reported that the men duct-taped his hands, forced him to lie face down on the floor and repeatedly struck and choked him.
The robbers stole Welker’s stereo speakers and a few other items of modest value, Strovink said.
Deputies said Hastings had dated Welker for the past few years and resumed their relationship about two weeks ago when she was paroled after serving seven months for car theft.
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