'06 Champs Team Up Again For 'Buckets' | New Haven Independent
When Chaz, Chazz, De’Arie, Mike, and Chris heard that a train had killed their star point guard, they decided it was time to suit up.
Only this time they weren’t suiting up to shoot hoops. They planned a way to remember Greg “Buckets” Jones—and keep alive a dream they all shared.
Jones, 28, died on April 14 in a gruesome accident in GIllette, Wyoming. A train crew discovered his decapitated body on the tracks; he’d been struck by an earlier train.
Now his former Hillhouse High School teammates—Chris Murrell, Chazz McCarter, De’Arie Allick, Chaz Stewart, and Michael Moore—have organized two fundraisers to help the Jones family with burial costs and hope to launch an athletic scholarship in his memory. (The second fundraiser starts at 5 p.m. Thursday at Roosevelt’s, 754 State St.; the funeral starts at 8 p.m. with a viewing, then the memorial service, at 8 a.m. Saturday at Morning Star Freewill Holiness Church, 125 Dixwell Ave.)
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