A woman who suffered traumatic injuries in a stabbing Friday in Northeast Portland is expected to survive, police said.

The woman was at the Lloyd Center/Northeast 11th Avenue MAX platform with a pair of other women around 4 p.m. when Christopher Eugene Woods approached her, police said. They had a conversation that led to a physical altercation, and Woods stabbed her, according to police.

Woods, 42, was arrested on suspicion of second-degree assault and menacing, Portland police said in a news release. He's being held in the Multnomah County Detention Center on $252,500 bail, according to records.

Police said Woods is set to be arraigned Monday.

Early information indicates Woods and the woman didn't know each other, police said. Officers recovered a knife.

The stabbing victim is in her late teens or early 20s, police said. She's being treated at a hospital.

Detectives continue to investigate the stabbing, which is one of at least three in Portland this month where there's been no apparent connection between the suspect and victim.

A Portland man died this week after being stabbed in an apparently random attack on May 8. The man suspected in the stabbing has been indicted on aggravated murder charges, according to court records filed Friday. He's been in jail since May 9.

And in another such attack, a man was stabbed outside The Nines Hotel last Friday. Police expected the man to survive.

Police ask anyone who saw the Lloyd Center MAX platform stabbing and hasn't yet spoken to officers to call 503-823-3333.

— Jim Ryan

jryan@oregonian.com

503-221-8005; @Jimryan015