--- title: Portland Stabbing: Harassment Victim Thanks Slain Rescuers description: The family says they will speak out when the time is right canonical: https://time.com/4797365/anti-muslim-attack-portland-victim-family-privacy/ author: Alana Abramson article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2017-05-29T21:18:46.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-02-23T05:09:20.040Z article:section: Politics og:title: Victim of Anti-Muslim Attack Thanks Men Who Died Saving Her og:description: "We're just here to say thank you" og:url: https://time.com/4797365/anti-muslim-attack-portland-victim-family-privacy/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blta4d04c23b556f723/6988cf41fb4eac78c2892351/portland-stabbing.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 2000 og:image:height: 1125 og:image:alt: Fatal Stabbing Portland og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Victim of Anti-Muslim Attack Thanks Men Who Died Saving Her twitter:description: "We're just here to say thank you" twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blta4d04c23b556f723/6988cf41fb4eac78c2892351/portland-stabbing.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # Victim of Anti-Muslim Attack Thanks Men Who Died Saving Her, Pleads for Privacy > Sponsored content. 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A heart-shaped wreath covered with positive messages hangs on a traffic light pole at a memorial in Portland, Ore, on May 27, 2017. Gillian Flaccus—AP  by [Alana Abramson](https://time.com/author/alana-abramson/)  ## Alana Abramson May 29, 2017 9:18 PM UTC The mother of one of the girls who was allegedly harassed with racial slurs in [Portland](http://time.com/4796968/portland-oregon-muhammad-najeb-jeremy-joseph-christian/?iid=sr-link1) last week posted a video on social media thanking the two men who were fatally stabbed protecting her. “We’re just here to say thank you,” Dyjuana Hudson said in [a video](https://www.facebook.com/1205345201/videos/vb.1205345201/10211135723208025/?type=2&theater) on her Facebook page, accompanied by her daughter, Destinee Mangum. “We’re very appreciative of what’s being done for us.” She explained that the family will come forward “when the time is right,” but that it’s too difficult to keep reliving the incident. The suspect in [the attack,](http://time.com/4797366/donald-trump-portland-anti-muslim-attack/) Jeremy Joseph Christian, fatally stabbed 53-year-old Ricky John Best and 23-year-old Taliesin Myrddin Namkai Meche last Friday. The two good Samaritans were killed when they intervened after Christian shouted anti-Muslim slurs at two teenagers on Portland’s MAX train. Another victim, 21-year-old Micah David-Cole Fletcher, was hospitalized. Hudson’s daughter said in the video that the best thing people can do for her right now is give her family privacy while they process the attack. “It will probably be easier if you guys don’t contact family, or my mother, or even me,” she said. Hudson had posted a tribute on her [Facebook page](https://www.facebook.com/permalink.php?story%5Ffbid=10211124124798072&id=1205345201&pnref=story) to Meche on Saturday. “You will always be our hero,” she wrote. “I’m soooooo sorry this happened… You didn’t even know my girls but you stepped in and saved my babies life.” Hudson had previously told the _Oregonian_ that her daughter had been on the train with her friend who was wearing a hijab, and that Christian had been shouting hate speech at them. “He was saying that Muslims should die,” she told[ the _Oregonian_. ](http://www.oregonlive.com/portland/index.ssf/2017/05/man%5Fsaw%5Fteenagers%5Fone%5Fwith%5Fhij.html)“That they’ve been killing Christians for years.” Christian is currently being held without bail on various charges included aggravated murder, according to [police](https://www.portlandoregon.gov/police/news/read.cfm?id=58149&ec=3). 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