Missoulian, 18 Sep 2010 – In the days leading up to his suicide, Colton Peterson assumed a free fall of self-destruction. Caught in the jetstream of drugs, violence and legal trouble, the 21-year-old Missoula native fought to right himself, but only spiraled into a sharper nosedive. The more he struggled, the faster his world spun off its axis and with no one willing or able to intervene, his life ended in tragedy.