One teen shot, another in jail. Their parents decry Portland gun violence

In the nightmare, Jeff Beck is pulling up again at the scene of his son’s shooting last month. The first responder just ahead of him is running to the teenager, who lies crumpled by the back tire of his car. Beck is careening forward, seeing the blood pouring from his son’s head, feeling the terror course through his veins again.

Then he wakes up. He reminds himself that his son, 16-year-old Elliott Beck, is still alive and recovering from a gunshot wound to the head at Randall Children’s Hospital at Legacy Emanuel.

The Roosevelt High School student can communicate with hand signals and by writing on a whiteboard. He still has a tracheostomy tube. Jeff Beck and his wife, Jennifer Beck, don’t know yet if he will walk, but he will live…

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Photos by Allison Barr