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Remembering Kevin Peterson Jr.
On October 29, 2020, Kevin Peterson Jr.ââSplashâ as he was known to his classmates and friendsâwas shot to death by police in Vancouver, Washington.
By
Ted Katauskas
3/13/2021 at 5:00am
[Top photo: Kevin Peterson Jr. on Portland Village School field trip to Opal Creek in 2010. Photo by Ted Katauskas]
On the wall of my home office hangs a framed cover, a memento from my years as
Portland Monthly magazineâs editor. Staging a clever (or so we thought) shot for our first Best Schools issue, we hired a photographer, Andy Batt, who commandeered a classic #2-pencil-yellow school bus and packed it with exuberant third graders from Ms. Molterâs class at Portland Village School, a public Waldorf charter where both my kids were enrolled. Thatâs my sonâs class in the bus, so naturally Willam (named for the river that flows through Portland) claimed center frame, hanging out an open window, flanked by his buddie