Ore .,: Gillian Flaccus and Press Police

ore .,: He was taken into custody soon after the attack, according to CBC. The attack unfolded hours before the start of Ramadan, Islam's holy month, when most of the world's 1.6 billion Muslims observe a daily religious fast. Police have arrested Jeremy Joseph Christian of Portland, a 35-year-old convicted felon. A man started shouting ethnic and religious slurs, apparently at the two young women, one of whom wore a hijab, the Portland Police Department said in a statement. Gillian Flaccus/Associated Press Police said 53-year-old Ricky John Best of Happy Valley, Ore., died at the scene on Friday and 23-year-old Taliesin Myrddin Namkai Meche of Portland died at a hospital. A sign of thanks rests against a traffic light pole at a memorial outside the transit centre in Portland, Ore. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.