In recent years, he represented the family of Dante Price, the 25-year-old man whose car was fired upon 17 times by two Ranger Security guards at the Summit Square Apartments in 2012.
Price died and the two security guards are still awaiting trial on charges of murder and abduction. The guards claimed that Price tried to run them over with the car. Price was black and the guards were white, but Dayton police said the shootings were not the result of a hate crime.
Mr. Greene also represented the family of Kylen English in 2011 when Florida attorney Willie E. Gary came to Dayton to announce that his law firm and Greene’s had planned to sue the Dayton Police Department over English’s death.
English, 20, was in the custody of Dayton police and being transported to the Montgomery County Jail in July 2011 when he broke the rear door window of a Dayton police officer’s cruiser, exited the car and jumped off the Salem Avenue bridge, falling 30 feet. English was later pronounced dead at Miami Valley Hospital.
Mr. Greene filed a wrongful death civil lawsuit on behalf of English’s family in 2012 against the city of Dayton, Dayton police, the officer involved and Grandview Medical Center. On June 25, 2013, Greene filed a motion for voluntary dismissal without prejudice in Montgomery County Common Pleas Court.
Greene attempted to run for mayor in 2009, but the Montgomery County Board of Elections ruled that his petitions did not meet city charter requirements, a decision that was eventually upheld by the Ohio Supreme Court.
Mr. Greene’s obituary, posted online at H.H. Roberts Funeral Home, states that his survivors include his wife of 23 years Jacquline “Jackie” Greene, daughters Imani Nicole, Rachel Denise and adopted daughter Shawna Worley.
Mr. Greene is also survived by his seven siblings, including his brother Joe Greene, a two-time Olympic bronze medalist.
The Montgomery County Coroner’s Office has not released an official cause of death.
Funeral services will be held at 11 a.m., June 3 at St. Benedict Catholic Church located at Liscum Drive and U.S. 35. His family will gather at the church at 9:30 a.m. that day.
Staff Writer Jeremy P. Kelley contributed to this report.
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