A 27-year-old man was sentenced to 12 years in prison Wednesday after he pleaded guilty to brutally stabbing a Beaverton woman last March, according to the Washington County District Attorney’s Office.

Bryan Andrew Aguilera shoplifted a butcher knife and a meat cleaver from the Fred Meyer in Beaverton on March 4, 2022.

From there, he walked to Center Plaza Apartments, almost a mile away. He then knocked on what the DA's office described as an "untargeted" door.

When the woman who lived there, a single mother, opened the door, Aguilera stabbed her 11 times in the back, neck and shoulder.

The woman used a bat she kept next to the front door to defend herself and then ran from her apartment. She collapsed in the walkway.

A neighbor came to her aid while others helped to capture Aguilera.

The woman survived but suffered permanent injuries.

The DA’s office said Aguilera had been on parole at the time for second-degree robbery. He had been released from prison after serving a nearly six-year prison sentence.