Boy charged with murder first in Marion County to be tried as adult since Measure 11 reform
Joshua Steward left Gresham the night of Jan. 16, 2021 in his girlfriend’s Toyota Camry, headed for Northeast Savage Road in Salem.
He had arranged to buy $340 of cocaine, according to testimony by Salem police detective Jamie Vasas in a Marion County Juvenile Court hearing May 2. Steward’s girlfriend Amaretta Rice rode with him, hoping to stop at In-And-Out Burger in Keizer on the way back home.
The pair pulled into a parking lot…
