The man who drove his car onto a sidewalk on Northeast Martin Luther King Jr. Blvd and killed a man who was standing just outside a Subway sandwich shop on NE Jarrett last week, has also died. Portland Police say 60-year-old Curtis Palmer died at the hospital on Tuesday.
Palmer drove his Ford Escape SUV about three blocks after hitting 49-year-old DaRon Craig (and nearly hitting Craig’s 12-year-old son), eventually coming to a stop when he slammed his car head-on into other drivers after he jumped a planted center median just north of NE Ainsworth.
According to a story in The Oregonian, Craig was a beloved family man who raised five children of his own and took in three others, “all of whom he treated as his own,” his ex-wife Angeline McKinney-Craig said…