Estacada Store Employee Stabbed By Man Carrying Severed Human Head: Clackamas Sheriff

ESTACADA, OR — A man who was reportedly carrying a knife in one hand and a severed human head in the other entered a grocery store in Estacada Sunday and stabbed one the store's employees before being subdued by the employee's co-workers, according to both Clackamas County Sheriff's Office and Sandy Police Department officials.

UPDATE: Around 2:30 p.m. Monday, police identified Colton resident Joshua Lee Webb, 36, as the man arrested Sunday. Webb has been charged with murder and attempted murder, police said. He was booked into the Clackamas County Jail at 12:30 p.m. May 15.

The decapitated head, police said, belonged to Webb's mother, Tina Maria Webb, 59. The Webb's reportedly lived together.

Original story now includes the Webb's identities.

Around 2:15 p.m. May 14, 911 callers from the Estacada Harvest Thriftway, located at 280 S. Broadway St., reported that Webb had entered the market covered in blood, carrying the knife and his mother's head. Webb then allegedly stabbed Thriftway employee Michael Wagner, 66, before he was grabbed and held down by other employees until Clackamas County deputies arrived at 2:20 p.m.

Wagner was taken to hospital while Webb was arrested without further incident, police said. As of Tuesday, May 16, Wagner remained in the hospital, Sandy police confirmed.

Shortly after 2:30 p.m., Sandy police responded to a 911 call in the 25000-block of Elwood Road in Colton, where they found Tina Webb, police said. No further details were initially provided, but police said the two crimes — at the grocery store and at the home — appear to be related.

This post has been updated to include Michael Wagner's, and Joshua and Tina Webb's identities.

This investigation is ongoing. Patch will continue to update this post a more information is made available.

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