For 15-year old Michael Eugene Thomas, it definitely was the shoes. A ninth grader at Meade Senior High School in Anne Arundel County, Maryland, Thomas was found strangled on May 2, 1989. Charging with first stage murder was James David Martin, 17, a basketball partner who allegedly took Thomas’s two week old Air Jordan basketball shoes and left Thomas’s barefoot body in the forest near school.
Thomas loved Michael Jordan, as well as the shoes Jordan endorses, and he cleaned his own couple each twilight. He reserved the cardboard shoe box with Jordan’s silhouette on it in a place of privilege in his extent. Inside the box was the sales permit for the shoes. It showed he salaried $115.50, the estimate of a product touched by divinity. “We told him not to corrosion the shoes to school,” said Michael’s grandmother, Birdie Thomas. “We said superstar might like them, and he said, ‘Granny, before I let anyone take those shoes, they’ll have to slaughter me.’”
Michael Jordan sits in the sheltered force room before a workout at the Chicago Bulls’ exercise resource in housing Deerfield, Illinois. He is tiresome his routine garb and a brace of black Air Jordan related to the ones litter Thomas wore, excluding that these have Jordan’s number, 23, stitched on the sides. On the shoelaces Jordan wears false toggles to prevent the shoes from loosening if the laces should come free. Two toggles come in each box of Air Jordans, and if kids knew that Jordan actually wears them, they would never step out the door without their own toggles securely in place. The door is locked to keep out the hoard of fans, journalists, and goodwill seekers who dog Jordan wherever he goes. Jordan wants a subtle second. He is reading and account of Thomas’s murder that a reporter has shown him.
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