The CEO of Nike praised top executive Larry Miller for admitting in a Wednesday interview that he murdered a teenager in 1965.
Miller’s “story is an example of the resilience, perseverance, and strength of the human spirit,” CEO John Donahoe wrote in a statement about his colleague. Miller, the chairman of Nike’s Jordan brand, told Sports Illustrated that when he was a 16-year-old member of Philadelphia’s Cedar Avenue gang, he killed 18-year-old Edward White, a presumed member of the rival 53rd and Pine gang, in retribution for the killing of a friend.
