Jason Sandford, reporting via Twitter (@ashevegas):
Police are all over Green's Mini Mart right now. (8:14 pm)
The rumor outside Green's Mini Mart is that Mr. Green committed suicide. Green and his store were a fixture in Asheville.
James Green, 75, was a community leader. People outside his Depot St. Store tonight say he killed himself in a back room of the laundromat.
Asheville police in the scene at Green's say they responded to a call of a gunshot wound at 7:09 pm.
Monica Harrison said James Green was living w lung cancer, but seemed in good spirits tonight. She talked to him not long before his death.
Monica Harrison said Green gave her free Pampers for her daughter several years ago when she couldn't afford to pay. "He was a good man."
More than two dozen people stood in stunned silence outside Green's store tonight, mourning. (8:49 pm)
Police are all over Green's Mini Mart right now. (8:14 pm)
The rumor outside Green's Mini Mart is that Mr. Green committed suicide. Green and his store were a fixture in Asheville.
James Green, 75, was a community leader. People outside his Depot St. Store tonight say he killed himself in a back room of the laundromat.
Asheville police in the scene at Green's say they responded to a call of a gunshot wound at 7:09 pm.
Monica Harrison said James Green was living w lung cancer, but seemed in good spirits tonight. She talked to him not long before his death.
Monica Harrison said Green gave her free Pampers for her daughter several years ago when she couldn't afford to pay. "He was a good man."
More than two dozen people stood in stunned silence outside Green's store tonight, mourning. (8:49 pm)
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This truly saddens me. I haven't lived in Asheville for 20 years. I haven't seen Mr. Green in years. I will never see him again. He was truly a good man.
By Sadden
11/03/2011
Mr. Green was a great man. He was a very important part of the community. He hung on by his fingernails in the River District to serve his community. He served as a member of the RiverLink Board of Directors. He will be missed.
By Dave Russell
11/03/2011
Whata real loss - Mr. green coudl light up a room with his smile. He was a real asset to us at RiverLink and one o fteh real pioneers of teh river. I remmber when it was Mr. Green's Mini Mart and RiverLink and pretty much no one else open to the public - we need to honor him somehow
By karen cragnolin
11/03/2011
the Laws family from swannanoa sends their condolences to the green family. Mr. green will truly be missed, and the green family will always be in our prays.
By The Laws family
11/05/2011