A student athlete and aspiring rapper, George Floyd helped others in Houston stay away from crime and not make some of his same mistakes.
But to his friends in his childhood hometown of Houston, he was remembered as a musician, a former student athlete and a loving brother and father.Located south of downtown Houston, the Third Ward has been home to freed slaves since the end of the Civil War and site of important landmarks such as Jack Yates Senior High School, the city’s second African American High School, and Emancipation Park, the first park for black Houstonians.
Fulghum said she grew up with Floyd and knew him and his mother well. She said she hopes people today celebrate Floyd as much as mourn him.Bevan Walker, 50, was bicycling through Houston’s Third Ward Monday morning when he stopped at the mural on Nalle Street. He snapped a photo of it with his phone.
“He came home yelling, ‘I made it made it! I made varsity!'" ZsaZsa Floyd said. “He was so excited. His face just lit up.” Floyd had the double-barrel street cred of being a former student athlete and budding rap artist who rubbed elbows with homegrown artists such as Cal Wayne and Trae tha Truth, Johnson said.
"He liked Minnesota because it was an opportunity to start over," she said."He kept telling me, 'You have to come out to Minnesota to visit.'" “He looked at me and said, ‘Man, Stiff, I’m going to change the world,’” she said. “I didn’t know he meant that literally.” Three days before Floyd was killed, Wayne was driving with friends from Houston to Minneapolis to surprise Floyd with a visit. When Floyd didn't answer his phone, they turned around and headed back to Texas.
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