The Oregonian, Feb. 27, 2016 An Oak Grove teen fatally shot by Clackamas County deputies during an apparent mental health crisis at his apartment last month told authorities that he was going to die that day, court documents say. About ninety minutes before Christopher Kalonji, 19, was to appear for a 9 a.m. hearing in Multnomah […]
Statesman Journal Editorial Board, February 17, 2016 Wednesday brought mourning to the Oregon Senate. No bills were passed. No floor speeches were made. For much of the day, no inflammatory press releases were issued. Family trumped politics. Family trumped partisanship. As family always should. Sen. Brian and Peggy Boquist had lost their oldest child, Seth […]
Yahoo News, Nov. 11, 2015 In the month since the Umpqua Community College shooting in Oregon — in which a 26-year-old man killed eight students and a professor — Congress has turned not to gun control, but mental health. Six days after the shooting, Rep. Martha McSally, R-Arizona, sponsored the Mental Health and Safe Communities […]
The Daily Astorian, July 23, 2015 Clatsop County District Attorney Josh Marquis said Wednesday that the county is in crisis on mental health and that law enforcement is frustrated by a limited ability to help people in urgent need of care. “We are not doing a good job,” Marquis said at a work session held […]
Dane Reister was a Portland police officer when, on June 30, 2011, he shot a 20-year-old man with bipolar disorder, William Kyle Monroe. Reister thought he was shooting beanbags, but he had mixed up his ammunition and shot Monroe with live rounds, causing serious and disabling injuries. For more information, click a tag: Dane Reister […]
The Washington Times, August 30, 2014 About 250 works of art – some digital, some recycled, some graffiti and some unfinished – hang on the walls of the Life Track Art Gallery and Youth Center in downtown Medford, while another 120 pieces are tucked away in closets, drawers and wooden trunks just waiting to be […]
OPB News, August 15, 2014 LISTEN: Calls to a Portland suicide prevention line have doubled since the death of Robin Williams. Deaths by suicide happen all the time in Oregon. Last year, 700 people took their lives — that’s five times as many as died from homicide. But Tom Parker with Lines for Life, says there’s something […]
Global News, August 12, 2014 WATCH – Dr. Jeffrey Lieberan, Chairman of Psychiatry at Columbia University’s College of Physicians and Surgeons, discusses the factors that could have contributed to Robin Williams’ apparent suicide. Actor and comedian Robin Williams was found dead Monday morning at his home in Tiburon, California. While an investigation into the cause […]
The Oregonian, August 7, 2014 Her death is bewildering, almost incomprehensible. In the past day — since police confirmed 37-year-old Jennifer Huston killed herself along a rural Sheridan logging road — many observers have wondered why she would resort to such a dire act. The Dundee woman’s body was found Tuesday. Police announced Wednesday that […]
Corvallis Gazette-Times, July 20, 2014 As about 90 people stood in front of the Benton County Courthouse in Corvallis Saturday morning, a father climbed the building’s stone steps, stepped to the microphone and shared his pain. “My son Kevin killed himself a year ago on Monday,” Jeff McDaniel told the crowd gathered for a march […]
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