Grandmother of murder suspect: 'I don't know what went wrong'
ENUMCLAW, Wash. – U.S. Marshals arrested a fourth man they say is connected to the “very violent death" of a Southwest Portland man over the weekend.
20-year-old Cliff Albert Carey was arrested in Emunclaw, Wash. on Thursday afternoon. Marshals said he was taken into custody without putting up a fight.
He faces an aggravated murder charge and is now in a Seattle-area jail awaiting extradition back to Oregon.
Police say Carey was involved with the murder of 25-year-old Charles Anthony Weber early Saturday morning. Investigators have released few details about the crime, but did take the unusual step of calling the crime especially violent.
A law enforcement source on Thursday told KATU the murder stemmed from a dispute over drugs. A medical examiner said Weber died of “blunt force trauma to the head.”
Carey's grandparents said their grandson was 16 years old when his father died in his arms. They said both Cliff's parents were meth users, which took a toll on the young man.
"I feel really bad. He has had a rough life from the day he was born," Barbara Carey said. "He's a survivor, he was tough, but he's got such a sweet side to him. I don't know what went wrong. I thought he needed help after his dad passed away and I told him 'I'll go with you.'"
His grandparents said Cliff had worked for a time for a marijuana grower in California, but they thought he had left that life. He had been in Washington for a new job when he was arrested.
Police previously arrested three other men in connection to the killing.
On Tuesday, police arrested 21-year-old Hussein Ali Haidar at an apartment on Southwest Luradel Street. Later that evening 18-year-old Omar Ibrahim was arrested at the same location.
Haidar faces charges of aggravated murder, burglary, unlawful use of a weapon and two counts of robbery. Ibrahim faces a murder and robbery charge.
20-year-old Mahmoud Moustafa was also arrested Tuesday on the Portland Community College Sylvania Campus. He faces aggravated murder, burglary, robbery and unlawful use of a weapon charges.
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Sounds like this guy's childhood and entire life so far was a recipe for failure and destruction. It is too bad, but I just can't feel sympathy for someone who makes such a terrible choice as an adult. Plenty of people with awful childhoods DO pull out of it, and never ever murder someone. Plenty of others go down the wrong path and end up irreversably addicted to drugs, or dead of drug overdoses or suicide, and *still* never murder someone. I can feel some sympathy for those people, as I myself fought addiction when I was younger, and watched my own mother slowly die when I was 11 years old. Never did I consider taking the life of another human being.
tpllwotb (the perp liked long walks on the beach)
ftc!   (for the children!)
d    (derrrrrr)
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@feral lol
When I first opened this story, I figured that I would have some smart azz comment to post (like i usually do) but after reading it, I realized that soooo many people have lost soooo much.
Whats going on? Did these numbskulls brag on facebook about what they did? Time for a reality check.
"Grandmother of murder suspect,"I don't know what went wrong"..Well Granny, it's like this....he killed someone. That's what went wrong. I hope that helps.
@danoseknows lmao
@danoseknows Right... And what went wrong when his parents went wrong. And did grandma go wrong, too?
@Lips eww  (everybody went wrong)
No one cares what you think, grandma! Your grandson did it, not you! Just stay out of the way, and let him fry!
@jpk Have you ever heard of innocent until proven guilty?
@tannin stfu
@tannin Weren't you staying on the KOMO site for quite a while?  I used to follow you when I was "someone else".  =)
Yup! I've heard of it! On the other hand, relatives always want to believe the best of their spawn, always! Sometimes, the kids and grandkids just turn out wrong, regardless of what gandparents, and parents might think! But I will await the judgment of their peers, without looking through rose colored glasses!
Isn't amazing how two of these guys are so "sweet"Â and "kind" and "wouldn't hurt anyone" and "they're such a good friend" and "he'd give the shirt off his back to help you"...blah blah blah.
@fracas So far, I haven't heard a jury declare a guilty verdict. Just sayin'
@fracas Hey -- you never know.  From what I can tell the trial isn't over yet.
As usual the first one to talk will get a sweetheart deal. Â The rest will have to deal with the full weight of our legal system. Â Sounds like the talking may have already started.
@Siwash The rest will have to deal with the full weight of our legal system
What, all 2 ounces of it? hahahahahahahaha
If this was the other way around it would be called a hate crime.
@OU812 If this is a crime about a drug deal, how the heck do you deem it a hate crime? What? A crime of hate for those who fail to follow through on a drug deal?
@OU812Â And since it's not, it's called a drug-related crime. Â
So now blunt force trauma is "very violent"
Are we just looking for more ways to scare people or did you just not want to say "Drug deal gone wrong leads to murder"?
@Owt_Raged oregon live headline calls it a fatal machete attack... Â
@auditor @Owt_Raged Machete...blunt force...did the killer use the handle?
cwajp? (cant we all just pray/)
loltrftabctd (laughing out loud to rawdog for the aids bby comment that dissapeared)
@the rover That was a good one that only you and I got to see -- and I didn't see it here.
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@feral lmao
Who the heck is George Takei?
Wait a second! Carey isn't a Muslim name so that puts the jihad talk to bed.It was a drug deal gone bad not some kind of terrorist attack.
@noneofyourbizzness Timothy "Nutjob" McVey wasn't a Muslim either.
@Mikey @noneofyourbizzness Neither was Eric Rudolph.
@noneofyourbizzness Hookah hooch, the parsley didn't cut it.
@jessfree lol
And then....they all start snitching. It's not hard to hide in Enumclaw.
It's Enumclaw, not "Emunclaw."
@alohan lol
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@Dr. RawdogÂ
@alohan The residents can't even pronounce or spell it; leave it alone....
the arabs came here to learn "english"......and they will get away with no problem via "diplomatic immunity"Â
we must allow the prince of saudi's messengers to carry out their missions when they come to far lands and by that one must have exotic sports car and go shopping. But most importantly, wear cologne and smoke.
its seriously a joke that we allow these fools at our schools just because they rake in the $$$$ and i know there is some agreement between the US and these wealthy arab nations to allow them here despite their abysmal worth ethic. Â Ask anyone around around psu/pcc or even oregon state and you learn about the giant cheating ring going on.
They should feel like they are getting ripped off actually, the illegals here pay instate tuition now!Â
i base this mini rant on on the idea that they are actually intl students lol.
@toobadsoosad Gee, and it sounded like you based your rant on paranoia and xenophobia.  Boy, was I ever wrong, eh?
I wonder what drugs they were involved with; opium, heroine, or hashish?
The picture of the victim unfortunately looked like a druggy so this all makes sense to me.
I got this, the white kid was selling coke and it was probably crappy and since the other dudes were addicts and felt ripped off I am sure they flipped out and killed the kid.Â
Another news media site added that two of the original three also have immigration holds!
Why should we believe one media site over another though? Maybe the other one got it wrong?
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@Dr. Rawdog lol
No need for that. My comment was only in reference to the incomplete KATU itemized listing of charges they all face.
@jpk lu
@Dr. Rawdog Very true, makes me wonder if a hold is placed on you, if you get pick you is holding, or if it's just luck of the draw.
Perhaps the KATU folks don't read The Oregonian in the morning!
But was KATU already informed of these charges.