He does so by drawing clear connections between himself, Frick, Shawn, Will, and Carlson Riggs (whom Will plans to kill to avenge Shawn’s death). In Buck’s serious moments, he also attempts to make very clear to Will how the neighborhood’s cycle of violence functions and continues. He heckles and teases Will, though this comes off as an attempt to get Will to reconsider his choices. In death, Buck is a jokester and doesn’t take Will’s desire for revenge seriously. Around the time of his death, he passed his gun down to Shawn, along with the chain that Shawn was wearing when he died. Buck was killed when a man named Frick attempted to rob him. Will recognizes that all of Shawn’s advice about girls also came straight from Buck. As a mentor to Shawn, Buck passed along “the Rules” of the neighborhood and taught him how to handle his gun. This earned him a reputation as a skilled thief who always had expensive stolen items in his possession. Following Pop’s death when Buck was 16, Buck took Shawn under his wing, ceased selling drugs, and instead started to rob suburban houses. This attempt failed, however, and Will wonders if the “nighttime” is something Buck couldn’t escape. Buck was raised in a difficult family situation: his father was plagued by the “nighttime” (a kind of inner darkness or dangerous streak) while his stepfather was a preacher and tried to get Buck on the right path. As far as Will knows, Buck never went by anything else-the only time Will ever saw Buck’s given name was on his headstone. Though his real name was James, he acquired the nickname Buck because he couldn’t grow any facial hair as a young man. When Will meets Buck’s ghost in the elevator, Buck is wearing a T-shirt commemorating his own death.
He’s tall and slim, has no facial hair, and wears gold chains around his neck.
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