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I am not sure why I am posting this. Normally stuff like this does not bother me at all. I drove by this right as the police were putting up the crime scene tape. I am c/p the story from the newpaper article. Like I said I am not sure why this bothered me. I guess with it being Valentines day and knowing his wife and child were the last things on his mind right before his life was ended by some idiot. This is not uncommon for Jackson, but this story just struck a nerve in me for some reason. Here it is.
Jackson man slain at work
Police suspect robbery motive in killing at store
By Theresa Kiely
Clarion-Ledger Staff Writer
A man who had worked at a west Jackson store since he was a child was killed there Wednesday when an unidentified assailant struck him in the head, police say.
Louis Green, 43, of 5817 Henley St., was pronounced dead at 2:30 p.m. at Jones Eggs, 1729 Terry Road, by Hinds County Coroner Sharon Grisham-Stewart.
An autopsy was planned for late Thursday, she said.
Willie Jones, 59, the store owner, expressed bewilderment. "He's like my son," Jones said. "He never bothered nobody."
Beatrice Thomas, 83, said she worked with her nephew now and then selling eggs and had been cooking Green dinner when the phone rang in her Hair Street home.
"His wife said, 'It's Louis. It's Louis,' but she didn't tell me he was dead," Thomas said. "This is the only job he ever worked. I wouldn't have the least idea why anyone would want to hurt him."
Green, who played football at Jim Hill High, graduated in 1978. He earned an associate degree from Utica Junior College and was a member of New McRaven Hill Baptist Church, said his sister-in-law Eunice Shoulders, 40, of Jackson.
"He was just a good, quiet guy," said Shoulders, who works at Union Planters Bank in Pearl.
Green had left the store at 10 a.m. to go home and leave a surprise of flowers and balloons for his wife, Althea, 38, a phlebotomist at the University of Mississippi Medical Center, and a Valentine's Day basket for their daughter, Keiona, 7, a student at Oak Forest Elementary, Shoulders said.
Minnie Holloway, 48, the Jones Eggs' manager, found Green on the floor after returning from a break, said her sister, Melissa Holloway, 37, of Jackson.
Melissa Holloway put her arm around a distraught Willena Jones, 25, of Jackson, Green's former co-worker, who had fallen to her knees outside the store.
"He was like a brother to us," Holloway said. "I can't believe this happened."
Jackson police spokesman Robert Graham suspects the motive was robbery. Anyone with information can call Detective Alan White at 960-2410.
Jackson man slain at work
Police suspect robbery motive in killing at store
By Theresa Kiely
Clarion-Ledger Staff Writer
A man who had worked at a west Jackson store since he was a child was killed there Wednesday when an unidentified assailant struck him in the head, police say.
Louis Green, 43, of 5817 Henley St., was pronounced dead at 2:30 p.m. at Jones Eggs, 1729 Terry Road, by Hinds County Coroner Sharon Grisham-Stewart.
An autopsy was planned for late Thursday, she said.
Willie Jones, 59, the store owner, expressed bewilderment. "He's like my son," Jones said. "He never bothered nobody."
Beatrice Thomas, 83, said she worked with her nephew now and then selling eggs and had been cooking Green dinner when the phone rang in her Hair Street home.
"His wife said, 'It's Louis. It's Louis,' but she didn't tell me he was dead," Thomas said. "This is the only job he ever worked. I wouldn't have the least idea why anyone would want to hurt him."
Green, who played football at Jim Hill High, graduated in 1978. He earned an associate degree from Utica Junior College and was a member of New McRaven Hill Baptist Church, said his sister-in-law Eunice Shoulders, 40, of Jackson.
"He was just a good, quiet guy," said Shoulders, who works at Union Planters Bank in Pearl.
Green had left the store at 10 a.m. to go home and leave a surprise of flowers and balloons for his wife, Althea, 38, a phlebotomist at the University of Mississippi Medical Center, and a Valentine's Day basket for their daughter, Keiona, 7, a student at Oak Forest Elementary, Shoulders said.
Minnie Holloway, 48, the Jones Eggs' manager, found Green on the floor after returning from a break, said her sister, Melissa Holloway, 37, of Jackson.
Melissa Holloway put her arm around a distraught Willena Jones, 25, of Jackson, Green's former co-worker, who had fallen to her knees outside the store.
"He was like a brother to us," Holloway said. "I can't believe this happened."
Jackson police spokesman Robert Graham suspects the motive was robbery. Anyone with information can call Detective Alan White at 960-2410.
