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Barbies we must have had every
Barbie made.”
Kendra ’s father Kenneth bought
his daughter a 1957 Chevy Barbie
car and one o f her Barbies, a 1951
special edition, turned out to be
worth $5,000. But when Isadore went
to sell it she found it in the dog’s
mouth. The legs were detached and
the body was chewed up. Isadore
remembers her daughter being un
derstandably upset.
If there was anything Kendra
loved more than Barbies it was
music. She grew up with music in
her blood. Her father started play
ing the bass when he was 14 and
never turned back. Kenneth remem
bers as soon as she could speak
she started singing. All though her
school days she sung in choir.
"She liked to sing that was her
thing,” he said. “She had a loud
voice. Just like me.”
Dancing was also top on her
list o f favorite activities. O ne day
after a choir perform ance Jam es'
parents surprised her with tick
ets to MC Hammer. She brought
him a rose and gave it to him at the
concert.
"That was one o f her finest mo
ments,” Isadore said, “She stood in
the isle right in front o f him and
tion with her stepdaughter. Badou
said she was a sweet girl who loved
to have her hair done and who
accepted her four stepbrothers and
sisters like her own blood.
’’She was really close to them,”
she said. “ I loved her just like one
o f my own kids.”
K endra also has children o f
- Judith Badou, Kendra James'
her ow n, M elvin Jam es, 3, and
stepmother
M arques Farris, 1, who are now in
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the care o f K enneth and Badou.
danced her little heart out.”
The fam ily describe M elvin as a
After Kenneth and Isadore sepa youngster full o f life as his mother
rated, K endra’s stepmother, Judith w as and M arques as alw ays a
Badou moved into the picture. happy baby.
Kendra was 13 and Badou remem
The last time they saw their
bers feeling an immediate connec mother was the day before her
death. She came over to visit and
kissed Melvin before leaving.
Although Kendra had run-ins
with the law- for drugs and theft
issues, her family swears she was
trying to turn her life around. They
hold no doubt in their minds that
she would have finished school
and cleaned up.
“She always told me, T m g o in g
to get myselftogether,’” Badou said.
U nfortunately, she never got
the chance. Now her fam ily is
faced w ith picking up the pieces.
Her sister Karisa is coping as well
as she can, Isadore said.
K enneth c a n ’t help but shake
his head and w onder w hy the
She always told
me, 7 in going to
get myself
together.
police had to shoot his daughter.
Isadore m akes a stoic effo rt to
fight back tears. But the m ost
unsettling thing, Badou said, are
the surviving children.
“They know som ething’s not
right,” she said. “ It’s so sad.”
Last week the family attended a
prayer v igil on the North Skidmore
overpass where Kendra was killed.
The weather was chilly and Badou
took the chi Idren to the car. She told
them they could have their own
prayer session inside.
“ M elvin cla sp e d his h an d s
and lo w ered his e y e s and then
he said , ‘G od b less my m o m ,’”
B adou said. “ It b roke my h e a rt.”
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Christ, w ho led one o f the vigils,
told The O regonian, “ It appears
that w hen it com es to people o f
color, it’s shoot first and get
acquitted later.”
N orth Precinct O fficer, Rick
B e a n , p u lle d o v e r a 2 0 0 2
C h e v ro le t C a v a lie r c a rry in g
Jam es, her boyfriend, Darnell
W hite and the driver, Terry Jack-
son, at 2:40 a.m. M onday, May
5, east o f North Interstate A v
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A s Jack so n w as taken into
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Jam es clim bed into the d riv e r’s
s e a t. T h e n th r e e o f f i c e r s
s tr u g g le d w ith J a m e s , w h o
started the ca r w ith the d riv e r’s
d o o r still open. R ey n o ld s fired
a stun gun at Jam es, but the
p ro b e failed to p ierce h er skin.
A s the ca r beg an to m ove,
M c C o lliste r fired on e fatal shot
from his 9 m m in to J a m e s ’
side.
Jam es had a recent w arrant
for her arrest for failure to appear
in court on a drug charge.
“ T h a t d id n ot h av e a n y th in g
to d o w ith th e s h o t,” s a id
L arry . “ I th in k it te lls us w h ere
w e tr u ly a re as a c o m m u n ity
an d a so c ie ty . T h is y o u n g lady
w as g o in g th r o u g h so m e
g ro w in g p a in s , b u t n o w sh e
w o n ’t h a v e a c h a n c e to tu rn
h e r life a ro u n d ."
M cC ollister is on paid leave
w hile the police bureau conducts
an internal investigation.
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