(Newport, OR) -- The victim of an assault in Newport last Wednesday died while reporting it to police. Officers responded to a disturbance. The tenant, Jeffrey Sutton, told officers Mark Rodgers was at his house intoxicated and belligerent. He told him to leave when Rodgers started punching him in the head and body. While talking with officers, Sutton had trouble breathing. Medics attempted CPR, but Sutton died at the scene. Mark Rodgers was arrested and charged with second-degree murder.