Wife of Uber driver fatally shot says he was her rock: ‘This just isn’t fair’

AUMSVILLE, Ore. (KPTV/Gray News) - An Oregon family is devastated after a husband and father of three was fatally shot while working as an Uber driver.

Kelly Kelvin lost Joshua Kelvin, her husband of 18 years, to a shooting Tuesday in southeast Portland while he was working as an Uber driver. His 17-year-old passenger was also shot and critically injured, KPTV reports.

“This just isn’t fair. It’s not fair. Absolute hell,” Kelly Kelvin said. “I think last night [Thursday] was the first night I slept more than two hours, and I can turn my light off finally. Every noise in the house, I was like, ‘Oh yeah, maybe he’s home. Maybe this was just a bad dream, an April Fool’s joke. Maybe he’ll be home.’”

Police say they arrived in the Powellhurst-Gilbert neighborhood just before midnight, where they found Joshua Kelvin dead and his teenage passenger critically injured in the car. Police have not yet arrested anyone in connection with the shooting.

Kelly Kelvin says she noticed her husband wasn’t home when she woke up Wednesday morning. A couple of hours later, she got a call from the police.

“I said, ‘Please don’t tell me it was my husband,’” she said. “He said, ‘Yes.’ And I lost it. I cried. I screamed. I said, ‘No, there’s no way.’ [I’ll miss] him, the hugs, the emotional support, his voice of reason. Just everything about him. I don’t get to hear his voice again.”

Kelly Kelvin says her husband worked up to 12 hours a day, six days a week for Uber but always made time for his family. The 42-year-old leaves behind three children.

“He was more than that. He was a husband, a father, a brother, a son, my rock. He has a whole family and friends, and we’ve all lost him because somebody was being stupid, made stupid choices,” Kelly Kelvin said.

Joshua Kelvin was a devout Christian who loved his country, singing, doing art and cooking, his wife says.

Now a single mother, Kelly Kelvin is unsure of what her future will look like.

“He would want me to forgive. He wouldn’t want me to hold a grudge, and I’m trying really hard not to. God probably had him there for a reason, and that’s how I got to look at it to get me through, to have some sort of peace,” she said.

As the investigation continues, police have not offered a motive for the shooting, but Joshua Kelvin’s brother alleged the teenage passenger was the target on a GoFundMe set up for the family.

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