Cleveland Michael

American homicide victim, found shot to death on August 25, 2000 in an alley behind his home of a siingle gunshot to the chest. There was no sign of burglary and no suspect had been charged. Cleveland had worked in a community co-operative market, taught tai chi, and played musical instruments. He was an only child whose parents divorced in 1982. After graduation from a technical college with a degree in mechanical drawing, he moved to Texas where he got a job reconditioning oil refineries. In the early 1990s he moved back to Ohio, became a vegetarian and began learning how to play musical instruments. He landed a job in a co-op market but left in 2002 to start a natural-product house cleaning company called Chem-Free Cleaning. His goal was to become an organic farmer. Read less