From the Portland Mercury, May 22, 2011 Mike Reese Didn’t Grow Up Dreaming He’d Be a Cop. But he’s the guy who just led Portland’s police force through its most “tumultuous” year in memory. We talk shootings, mental health, and Tasers—and how next year might be better. Symmetry is a funny thing. When Mike Reese, […]
By Jenny Westberg, Portland Mental Health Examiner On Dec. 27, Portland police shot Marcus Lagozzino, 34, critically injuring him, in the sixth officer-involved shooting of 2010. Within a week, 2011 started with another officer-involved shooting – then another. At 1:37 a.m. on Jan. 1, police arrested a man at Club 915 in downtown Portland. While […]
From the Portland Tribune, July 16, 2010 Even today, Felesia Otis wonders if her son, Keaton, could have ever been civilly committed before he died in a May 12 gunfight with police. She talks about her family’s life in this video by Portland Tribune photojournalist Christopher Onstott.
From The Oregonian, July 13, 2010 Lynda Hughes can tell when her son, Devin [Hughes], wavers on the edge of psychosis. It’s hard to catch him before he falls. The towering 26-year-old stays safe and content when he takes his medicine and lives with people who look after him. “I can go along for a […]
From the Portland Tribune, June 17, 2010 Portland police and other emergency service providers will have a new place to bring mentally ill people in crisis besides the county jail or local hospitals. Multnomah County, the city of Portland and the nonprofit Central City Concern reached a final deal Thursday, June 17, to build and […]
From KGW.com, June 8, 2010 Keaton Otis spent the last months of his life mostly alone in his bedroom suffering from delusion and depression, his mother told a Multnomah County grand jury. Otis shot a police officer May 12 during a traffic stop near Lloyd Center and died in a hail of return gunfire. In […]
by Jenny Westberg Keaton Otis was just 25 years old when he died on May 12, shot by police after a routine traffic stop in Northeast Portland. He was the third victim of a police shooting in Portland this year. In the latest tragedy, Officer Christopher Burley was wounded. Thankfully, he is expected to return […]
Keaton Otis, a person with a diagnosis of a mental illness, was shot and killed by Portland Police officers on May 12, 2010 during a routine traffic stop. Police Documents Record of the Deceased – Keaton Otis (PDF) Witness Testimony to Homicide Investigators – (PDF 22 MB) Detective Reports – (PDF, 7.8 MB) Witness Officers’ […]
From the Willamette Week, May 28, 2010 A Multnomah County grand jury has found no criminal liability in the Portland police’s fatal shooting of Keaton Dupree Otis. The May 12 shooting death of the 25-year-old Otis during a traffic stop in the Lloyd District was the third fatal shooting by Portland police this year There […]
From the Portland Mercury, May 20, 2010 For the third time this year, a Portlander with a history of mental illness has met an untimely death in a hail of police gunfire. The death of 25-year-old African American Keaton Otis last Wednesday, May 12—just hours after Mayor Sam Adams took over the police bureau and […]
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