James Green was a comedian who always kept everybody laughing. He worked hours after school to help support his mother and eight siblings, and he talked about going to the University of California, Los Angeles, once he graduated from Jim Hill High School in Jackson.
“Out of all my mother’s kids, she said he was the best child, as far as more disciplined, honorable,” Gloria Green-McCray told the Jackson Free Press on Wednesday as she described who he was. “He was just a wonderful brother, wonderful son. They just don’t make them like that anymore.”
Unfortunately, Green never got to attend UCLA, or for that matter, graduate from high school, as a stray bullet cut his life short…