Man stabbed 28-year-old over 50 times, set car on fire with body inside, OR officials say
A 44-year-old man is facing decades in prison nearly seven years after a deadly attack in Oregon, prosecutors said.
Thomas Robert Colon was convicted of second-degree murder in the 2018 death of Andrew Hathaway, the Multnomah County District Attorney’s Office said in a March 14 news release.
McClatchy News reached out to Colon’s attorney March 17 and was awaiting a response.
Colon is accused of beating and stabbing Hathaway, 28, during a fight in September 2018, according to prosecutors.
Hathaway went to a home “where two other men were living and Colon was visiting,” and “that evening all four men were using drugs and high,” prosecutors said.
“At one point,” according to prosecutors, Colon and Hathaway were left alone and started to fight.
“One of the other men later said that Colon was winning the fight and Hathaway was screaming for help. The other men broke up the fight and things calmed down for a time,” prosecutors said. But then “the fight started up again and Hathaway was bloodied. It briefly stopped for a second time but then continued with Colon beating and stabbing Hathaway until he was dead,” prosecutors said.
Hathaway was stabbed 55 times and sliced six times, according to prosecutors.
Colon and another of the men put Hathaway’s body in the trunk of his own car, parked the car in a vacant parking lot and set it on fire, prosecutors said. Hathaway’s body was found mostly “charred,” according to prosecutors.
Senior Deputy District Attorney Shawn Overstreet said the conviction represents “some justice for the Hathaway family,” per the release.
“I’m glad we could finally bring them some closure,” Overstreet said in the release, describing the investigation as “lengthy” and saying it involved “lots of misdirection from others in the beginning.”
Colon was convicted of the second-degree murder charge in a trial, and he pleaded guilty to second-degree arson, second-degree abuse of a corpse and tampering with physical evidence, prosecutors said.
He’s scheduled to be sentenced Wednesday, March 19, and faces life in prison, according to prosecutors. He would be required to serve 25 years before becoming parole-eligible, prosecutors said.
This story was originally published March 17, 2025 at 4:16 PM with the headline "Man stabbed 28-year-old over 50 times, set car on fire with body inside, OR officials say."
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