New Jersey man who bit off MAX passenger’s ear says, ‘I feel really horribly about what happened’

A New Jersey man who chewed off a stranger’s ear and spat it out onto a deserted light-rail platform last year was sentenced to just over three years of prison Wednesday. Both prosecution and defense say Koryn Kraemer’s gruesome attack at the Cleveland Avenue MAX platform about 2 a.m. on Jan. 3, 2023 was largely attributed to his schizophrenia — causing him to tell responding officers that he believed his victim was a homicidal “robot.” Kraemer, now 27, initially gave Gresham police a fake name, “El Baker,” acknowledging that he...