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OREGON CITY, Or. -- A 33-year-old Gladstone man was sentenced Oct. 24 to 200 months in prison after he pleaded guilty relating to crimes against a former girlfriend and an attack on woman at a hospital.
Ricky Thomas Phillips was convicted in a Clackamas County courtroom of two counts of second-degree assault, two counts of felony strangulation, two counts of first-degree rape and one count of first-degree burglary.
The investigation into Phillips began this past May 17 when a woman at Kaiser Sunnyside Medical Center was attacked in the hospital’s parking garage by a man who was hidden in the backseat of her vehicle. Wearing a Deadpool mask, Phillips slipped a cord around the victim’s neck and strangled her. The victim was able to get her hand under the ligature and fight back. She eventually broke the ligature, pulled off the suspect’s mask and was able to identify Phillips.
Prior to the attack in the car, Phillips had burglarized the woman’s home and had stolen a key fob to her vehicle which had allowed him to access the vehicle without her knowledge. As a result of the May attack, the Clackamas County District Attorney’s office levied assault, strangulation and burglary charges against Phillips.
As the investigation proceeded, a woman known to both Philips and to the prior attack victim came forward and reported additional crimes committed by Phillips. This new victim had previously been in an intimate relationship with Phillips, and based on this follow-up investigation, prosecutors charged Phillips with rape, along with a second count of strangulation.
Phillips, who has no prior criminal history, is now in prison under the supervision of the Oregon Department of Corrections.
The Clackamas County District Attorney’s office wants to thank detectives, deputies and community service officers with the Clackamas County Sheriff’s Office, along with crime scene investigators and the Clackamas County Interagency Task Force, on working together to hold this very dangerous person accountable.