

That's why the two of us are sitting in this car right now." Some of them are good, some of them are bad. As a teen, he discovered the body of an unidentified boy, which had a profound effect on him (he went door to door in order to collect money to buy the boy a headstone and visited the boy's grave every time he came home to Chicago). Buford acted as a surrogate father to Morgan, helping Morgan to obtain the aforementioned football scholarship, but Buford was also sexually abusing him, which Morgan revealed several years later, under extreme duress. He was taken under the wing of a local youth center coordinator, Carl Buford. After his father's death, Morgan struggled somewhat with youthful fighting, earning him a juvenile criminal record. The three of them were close to their paternal aunt Yvonne and cousin Cindi, whose house they would stay at whenever their parents were working.Īt the age of ten, Morgan was a witness to the shooting death of his father Hank, a police officer. He and his two sisters, Sarah and Desiree, grew up in a tough Chicago neighborhood. He went to Northwestern University on a football scholarship and is an honor graduate in Law, holds a black belt in Judo, runs FBI self-defense classes, served in a bomb squad unit, and worked as a Chicago police officer. During high school, Morgan was popular from his sophomore year to graduation he confided to Reid that he got his "ass kicked every day" during his freshman year. Morgan was born on June 6, 1973, to an African-American father and a Caucasian mother.
