He was training to be a sewing machine mechanic in belfast and he travelled on bus every sunday evening.
"Once, he asked for permission to his mother to go to a civil rights march. John said:
He was 17, He was old enough to go, But he still asked out of respect to his mother, and we all persuaded he to go"
In that same march, the Sunday 30, january, He was shot in cold blood by some british paratroopers, He was one of the youngest victims of the Bloody Sunday.
As Michael's mother was very protective because of an illness who left him in a coma for three weeks, she followed him to the march, while she was looking through his sister's window in Bogside, sho saw the Soldier F shoot Michael in cold blood.
John has kept a Mars chocolate bar Michael was carrying when he was shot.