A son’s crimes spurred the financial problems that led family to lose N. Portland house now at center of activist occupation
Updated Dec 10, 2020;
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The financial troubles of the family at the center of the North Portland “red house” occupation date back nearly 20 years to a criminal case involving the former owners’ son.
William Kinney III pleaded guilty in 2002 to felony hit-and-run, third-degree assault and the juvenile equivalent of criminally negligent homicide for causing the death of an 83-year-old man, Frederick Goetz, and seriously injuring Goetz’s wife, Ann.
Fred Goetz was an outdoors writer and at one time owned Cameron’s Books & Magazines, a downtown bookstore.