Dressed in a black, jail-issued jumpsuit, Deshaun Swanger said very little during his appearance before a Clackamas County judge Friday afternoon, only responding, “Yes, ma’am” and “No, ma’am” to questions from the public defender.
Minutes later, he said nothing as the judge handed down his $500,000 bail on a sole charge of attempted murder.
Investigators say Swanger is the man, seen in restaurant surveillance video, who walked into a Happy Valley Denny’s Wednesday night, sat down and doused the stranger next to him with gasoline.
He then, deputies say, lit that stranger on fire.