Portland rioter sentenced for killing infant son while on probation for assaulting federal worker

A Portland rioter was sentenced to 12.5 years in prison for causing the death of his infant son while he was on probation for assaulting a federal officer in 2020, officials announced.

A Multnomah County Circuit Court Judge sentenced Dakota Kurtis Means to 150 months in prison after he pleaded guilty to one count of first-degree manslaughter and one count of first-degree criminal mistreatment, District Attorney Mike Schmidt said Friday.

The guilty pleas are in connection to the April 2021 death of Means' 6-week-old son, Hunter Means. He was also charged with second-degree murder and first-degree assault, but those charges appear to have been dropped, per court records.

When Means was 20, he was charged with "forcibly assaulting, impeding, and intimidating a federal employee" near a U.S. courthouse in August 2020, according to the Justice Department.

Prosecutors said Means allegedly yelled obscenities as he followed an employee walking to work around 5:30 a.m. Means was carrying a black paintball rifle and yelled at the employee, "it’s a paintball gun now, but it’s going to be an AR later," in reference to an AR-15 rifle, according to officials. 

Means pleaded guilty in October 2020 to one assault count and served 60 days in custody. He was sentenced to time served and received a year of probation in January 2021, when his wife was pregnant with their second child, according to Oregon Live.

Means' son, Hunter, died on June 23, 2021, after he permanently lost brain function from a brain hemorrhage and a skull fracture on April 17, 2021.

Means' wife had told investigators that he had been "really physically violent" to her and said he "treats me like an animal," according to court documents. Prosecutors also said that the couple's one-year-old son showed evidence of healing rib fractures.

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