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Experts point to
oversights in
Kendra James
investigation
(A P )— National police experts
say there were a number o f over
sights and questionable decisions
by Portland officers in the fatal
shooting o f a 2 1-year-old woman
who tried to flee arrest follow ing a
traffic stop.
O fficer Scott M cCollister fired
the fatal shot on May 5 after Kendra
James jumped into the driver’s seat
o f the car and tried to escape. The
single 9 mm bullet entered below
her lower left hip and lodged be
neath her right breast.
McCollister, 27, told detectives
he feared he would be killed by the
moving car. A grand ju ry last M on
day cleared him o f any criminal
wrongdoing. An internal police in
vestigation and FBI c iv il rights in
quiry are still pending.
C hief Mark Kroeker has ordered
a full organizational review o f po
lice policy, training and officer re
cruitment follow ing the shooting.
Police experts nationwide al
ready are criticizing the way the
arrest was handled.
“ I think there are some serious
questions in my mind about the
procedures," said Sam Walker, a
criminologist at the University o f
Nebraska who specializes in police
oversight.
M cC ollister told police he fired
because was falling and was afraid
he would be struck by the moving
car. Other officers at the scene, and
two witnesses who were walking
by the traffic stop, said they
did not see M cCollister fall.
Initial reports from o ffic
ers at the scene suggested
McCollister first said his foot
Kendra James
got stuck in the car, or car seat.
M cC ollister later denied making
such a statement.
Several witnesses told K G W -
T V they did not agree w ith the
police version o f the shooting.
"The door was open, they were
standing shoulder to shoulder, at
the front door while it was open.
/ think there
are some serious
questions in my
mind about the
procedures.
- Sam Walker, acrimlnologlstatthe
University of Nebraska who
specializes In police oversight, on
the Kendra James shooting
and the car was going forw ard, so
how can you be pinned?” witness
Brician W illiam s said.
Geoffrey Alpert, acriminologist
at the University o f South Carolina
who studies police shootings na
tionwide, said the first mistake by
officers was not removing the keys
from the car after they took the
driver into custody for not carrying
a license.
The officers, A Ipert said, should
have coordinated a plan to get
James out o f the car.
But O fficer Rick Bean, when
questioned by detectives, said,
“ There was no set out plan.”
Once James was shot, McCollister
pulled her from the car, handcuffed
her on the ground, and called for an
ambulance. He said he walked to his
car to get crime scene tape.
“ Just so I ’ m fu lly understand
ing, there’s a person that’s shot on
the ground and you walked away
and there was no one w ith this
person?” Detective John Brooks
asked McCollister during the initial
review o f the shooting. McCollister
said he did walk away.
There was no indication from
police records that anyone else
stood by James as they waited for
the ambulance.
Experts also criticized a dinner
that M cC ollister and his w ife had
with O fficer Kenneth Reynolds and
another officer follow ing the shoot
ing. Reynolds tried firing an electri
cal stun gun at James as he stood
beside M cC ollister at the driver's
front door o f the car, but it appar
ently failed to deliver a charge.
McCollisteralso talked by phone
w ith Bean a day or so later. A ll the
officers said they did not discuss
the shooting.
General police policy calls for
witnesses to a shooting to be sepa
rated until after they have been
interviewed. Walker, the Nebraska
police expert, said the policy also
applies to officers.
The police union president, Sgt.
Robert King, said the union w ill
stand by McCollister.
“ We are not paid in our role as
police officers to go to w ork and be
hurt and be killed.” he said. “ We
stand firm ly beside them now and
we w ill continue to, through what
ever comes.”
Woman Beaten Over the Head
Family says victim had mental capacity of a 12-year-old
(A P )— Family members
o f the woman whose body
was found Friday between
railroad tracks in downtown
P ortland say th e ir lo st
daughter and sister was a
“ little girl in a big woman’ s
body.”
T w e n ty -tw o -y e a r-o ld
Jessica Kate W illiam s was
bom with fetal alcohol syn
drome and had the mental
capacity o f a 12-year-old,
her fam ily says. She lived
w ith her parents in
Gladstone. She wasn’ t al
lowed to drive, and though
she was 6-foot-4 and 230
pounds, she got along best
with children.
Despite her imposing fig
ure, she was “ a big teddy
bear, the sweetest, most
kind person,” said her sis
ter, 18-year-old Noel W ill
iams.
So her fami ly was baffled
W illia m s, a Gladstone H igh
S chool graduate, liv e d w ith
W h itco m b ’ s fa m ily fo r a week
when she was having problems
at hom e e a r lie r th is ye a r,
W hitcom b said. She also lived in
a dow ntow n Portland shelter fo r
a couple o f months, where she
befriended homeless youths. And
during the week before her death,
W h itco m b said, Jessica live d
Jessica W illiams
beneath the Steel Bridge.
Sam and Rebecca W illia m s
when police told them that Jessica adopted Jessica when she was 9
W illiam s had been beaten over the months old. She was one o f their 14
head.
children — ages 8 to 40 — nine o f
Portland police detectives are whom are adopted and seven o f
still investigating the death, said whom have some form ofdisability,
Henry Groepper, a Police Bureau Noel W illiam s said.
spokesman.
W illia m s ’ fa m ily said they
But some who knew W illiam s worked to keep her safe but that it
forecasted danger. Unbeknownst was hard to set boundaries once
to her parents, W illiam s had been W illiam s reached adulthood.
hanging out w ith gang members
Her fam ily last saw Jessica on
over the last decade, said Loren May 17, w hen she left herGladstone
Whitcomb, 17, a close friend o f home over her mother’ s objections
Williams.
to hang out w ith friends.
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D errick Todd Lee, 34, was
charged in a warrant issued M o n
day w ith m urder and aggravated
rape in the k illin g o fC a rrie Yoder,
26, a Louisiana State U n ive rsity
graduate student w ho became
the serial k ille r’ s fifth know n v ic
tim in March.
The nationw ide hunt fo r Lee
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Jackson said Lee \yas last seen
around m idday Monday at a hotel
in the southeastern part o f the
city.
M e a n w h ile , a u th o ritie s in
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