What can we do to help? was frequently Angel Geib’s first inquiry at trying times.
As an addiction counselor and mother of six, Geib turned her own struggles with drugs into a means of assisting others.
Maureen Jones, Geib’s 70-year-old mother, claimed it was just the kind of person she was.
Geib, 40, passed away on November 9 at an apartment in Northeast Portland. The man who told police that he was cleaning his gun in the bathroom said that it had inadvertently fired, killing his hand.
Geib was fully clothed and slumped over when police discovered drug paraphernalia in the restroom. According to court documents, Michael English, the 33-year-old man who is accused of killing her, ran away from the flat where he was staying and failed to report the shooting for forty minutes. Geib doesn’t appear to have known the other residents of the apartment, and it’s unclear how she met English.
Jones stated that she wasn’t totally shocked that her daughter ended up in that challenging setting. Geib, who had been helping outpatients at the social services nonprofit in Oregon City, had lately become homeless and quit her job. But Jones, a Philomath resident, is haunted by the situation.
She subsequently said, “She was a beautiful person inside and out. I am upset that the man left her lying on a stranger’s bathroom floor and abandoned her.”
According to her mother, Geib grew up in Spokane with a somewhat older brother. The family enjoyed camping, a pastime that Geib instilled in her own kids. According to Jones, Bull River in northwest Montana was their favorite location.
Geib wanted to be a counselor from a young age, according to her mother.
Geib raised her long-term ex-partner’s children, who were ten and twelve years old at the time, as her own after they reunited at the age of 18. After that, she had four more kids, two of whom were boys and two of whom were girls, ranging in age from four to thirteen. According to Jones, she intended to have her daughters stay with her in a shelter in Vancouver and made numerous attempts to see them even while she was homeless. The lads shared a home with their dad.
Jones claimed it had been four weeks since she had saw Geib, who had brought her daughters to Philomath for a brief visit. Jones saw Geib’s body on Friday, which was the last time.
In the incident, which took place in the Vine Maple Apartment Complex on Northeast 146th Avenue close to Burnside Street, English is charged with first-degree manslaughter and being a felon in possession of a handgun.
Geib and English arrived at the flat just after midnight, according to police, and the shooting happened around 1:20 a.m., when surveillance shows English leaving the room alone. According to court documents, the individual who allowed him to crash there summoned him back a little after two in the morning.
Friday is the date of his upcoming court hearing.
Geib became Roeshaun Johnson’s stepmother when she was ten years old.
Johnson, 32, said, “As a family, we’re currently picking up pieces because a mother’s gone.” It was she who ensured that we had Christmas. She handled everything, including cooking and Christmas shopping.
For The Oregonian/OregonLive, Zaeem Shaikh writes about criminal justice problems and the Portland Police Bureau. You can reach him on X@zaeemshake or at 503-221-4323, [email protected].
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