A 22-year-old man has been charged with a carjacking in Southwest Portland, purposely driving off with the man still inside the car and later shooting toward two people in Southeast Portland’s Mount Tabor Park who had asked what was going on.

Carlos Yowan Batista was arraigned Tuesday on 25 criminal counts, including first-degree kidnapping, attempted murder and being a felon in possession of a gun during an alleged crime spree on Aug. 27. Batista pleaded not guilty in Multnomah County Circuit Court.

Carlos Yowan Batista, 22, is accused of carjacking, kidnapping and attempted murder. (Multnomah County Sheriff's Office)

According to police and the Multnomah County District Attorney’s Office, two men carjacked a car at the Barbur Boulevard Transit Center, bound the man inside with some sort of restraints and drove to Mount Tabor Park. At the park, two parkgoers saw the victim outside the car and asked him what was happening shortly after 6 p.m., investigators said.

No one was injured, police said. The two suspects then drove off in the stolen 2007 BMW.

Only Batista has been charged. Officers found him in Thurston County in Washington. He was extradited to Oregon.

An indictment alleges Batista tried to kill the two parkgoers by firing at least eight bullets and that the bullets caused more than $1,000 in damage to unspecified property belonging to the parkgoers.

This isn’t the first time Batista has been accused of gun crimes. In 2017, he was sentenced to two years in prison after he told police that he exchanged gunfire while driving by some gang members in Northeast Portland, according to a probable cause affidavit.

-- Aimee Green

agreen@oregonian.com

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