Noah Cardamon
Noah Cardamon
Monday, May 30, 2005
Age: 23
Location:
600 SE 49th Street at Stark Street
Portland
United States
An 18-year-old driver, apparently drunk at the time, rear-ended Cardamon. The driver first told police that she had been driving past and saw a wounded cyclist, but later admitted to hitting him.
The drunk driver has been charged with one count of criminally negligent homicide. Her passenger, Sheena Dawn Foster, is charged with one count of hindering prosecution and one count of interfering with a police officer.
Legal update (9/14/05): According to Oregonian reporter Tony Green: “A Multnomah County grand jury in June declined to indict Dana Abdullah,the driver of a car that was involved in a fatal collision with bicyclist Noah Jacob Madison Cardamon a month earlier. Abdullah was initially charged with criminally negligent homicide. According to the prosecutor, the victim’s blood alcohol level was over 0.30—-more than three times the legal limit of .08; he had marijuana in his system and on his person. Abdullah had been drinking, but she blew a 0.04. She was cited for minor in possession, which is a ticket. Finally, the victim was wearing dark clothes on a rainy night. From the scene, it appears that he possibly struck her first. The prosecutor said the grand jury just didn’t think the case was there.”
From an article:
Noah Cardamon could play the didgeridoo.
He learned it when he was 9 after he saw a San Francisco street musician play one. His first one was homemade, from PVC pipe, which he used until his father bought him a real one for Christmas.
His grandmother home-schooled him for several years in Corvallis, where he moved after being born with the aid of a midwife at a house in Sunnyvale, Calif. As a child, he loved to draw. He also loved animals.
He moved in with his single father, Thomas Cardamon Jr., when he was 8.
Only 23 when he died, Cardamon never finished high school but always seemed to have a job, sometimes more than one. Video store clerk, bartender, Beaterville Cafe waiter.
He kept his hair cut short, which only made his brown eyes look bigger. His looks reflected his mother’s heritage: half-black and part American Indian.
He kept journals that his family would not see until after his death.
“We didn’t really know until we read his journals how talented he was,” his father said.
He struggled with alcohol, his father said -- working as a bartender didn’t help -- and planned to quit his jobs and take work fishing in Alaska for the summer.
“I found the list of clothes and supplies he was going to need in his messenger bag,” Thomas Cardamon said.
He planned on going to a school for bicycle mechanics in Ashland after he got back from Alaska.
Cardamon loved his bike, built it himself from the frame up.
And the messenger bag his father found went with him everywhere. It was on his back May 30 when his bicycle veered into a car at Southeast 49th Avenue and Stark Street around 2 a.m. He was not wearing a helmet.
Two teenage girls in the car initially told police they found Cardamon already on the ground, later admitting being involved in the accident. Cardamon’s blood-alcohol level was .33, according to the autopsy, more than quadruple the legal limit of .08. The driver of the car, too young to drink legally, had a blood-alcohol content of .02. A Multnomah County grand jury declined to charge the girls.
“I still don’t know if Noah was alive after they hit him or what his last words may have been,” Thomas Cardamon said. “I wish I knew exactly what happened.”
http://www.portlandtribune.com/news/story.php?story_id=33300
Monday, May 30, 2005
Age: 23
Location:
600 SE 49th Street at Stark Street
Portland
United States
An 18-year-old driver, apparently drunk at the time, rear-ended Cardamon. The driver first told police that she had been driving past and saw a wounded cyclist, but later admitted to hitting him.
The drunk driver has been charged with one count of criminally negligent homicide. Her passenger, Sheena Dawn Foster, is charged with one count of hindering prosecution and one count of interfering with a police officer.
Legal update (9/14/05): According to Oregonian reporter Tony Green: “A Multnomah County grand jury in June declined to indict Dana Abdullah,the driver of a car that was involved in a fatal collision with bicyclist Noah Jacob Madison Cardamon a month earlier. Abdullah was initially charged with criminally negligent homicide. According to the prosecutor, the victim’s blood alcohol level was over 0.30—-more than three times the legal limit of .08; he had marijuana in his system and on his person. Abdullah had been drinking, but she blew a 0.04. She was cited for minor in possession, which is a ticket. Finally, the victim was wearing dark clothes on a rainy night. From the scene, it appears that he possibly struck her first. The prosecutor said the grand jury just didn’t think the case was there.”
From an article:
Noah Cardamon could play the didgeridoo.
He learned it when he was 9 after he saw a San Francisco street musician play one. His first one was homemade, from PVC pipe, which he used until his father bought him a real one for Christmas.
His grandmother home-schooled him for several years in Corvallis, where he moved after being born with the aid of a midwife at a house in Sunnyvale, Calif. As a child, he loved to draw. He also loved animals.
He moved in with his single father, Thomas Cardamon Jr., when he was 8.
Only 23 when he died, Cardamon never finished high school but always seemed to have a job, sometimes more than one. Video store clerk, bartender, Beaterville Cafe waiter.
He kept his hair cut short, which only made his brown eyes look bigger. His looks reflected his mother’s heritage: half-black and part American Indian.
He kept journals that his family would not see until after his death.
“We didn’t really know until we read his journals how talented he was,” his father said.
He struggled with alcohol, his father said -- working as a bartender didn’t help -- and planned to quit his jobs and take work fishing in Alaska for the summer.
“I found the list of clothes and supplies he was going to need in his messenger bag,” Thomas Cardamon said.
He planned on going to a school for bicycle mechanics in Ashland after he got back from Alaska.
Cardamon loved his bike, built it himself from the frame up.
And the messenger bag his father found went with him everywhere. It was on his back May 30 when his bicycle veered into a car at Southeast 49th Avenue and Stark Street around 2 a.m. He was not wearing a helmet.
Two teenage girls in the car initially told police they found Cardamon already on the ground, later admitting being involved in the accident. Cardamon’s blood-alcohol level was .33, according to the autopsy, more than quadruple the legal limit of .08. The driver of the car, too young to drink legally, had a blood-alcohol content of .02. A Multnomah County grand jury declined to charge the girls.
“I still don’t know if Noah was alive after they hit him or what his last words may have been,” Thomas Cardamon said. “I wish I knew exactly what happened.”
http://www.portlandtribune.com/news/story.php?story_id=33300