FBI BAU Supervisory Special Agent Derek Morgan is played by Shemar Moore. He has an African-American father and a caucasian mother. He is a blackbelt in Judo and runs FBI self-defense classes. He used to be in the bomb squad and was a Chicago Police Officer. He has two sisters. After his father died when he was ten, he got into trouble and earned himself a juvenile criminal record. A local youth center coordinater acted as a surrogate father and helped Morgan earn a football college scholarship, but he also sexually abused him. In 3x20 (Lo-Fi) he found out he was being looked at to replace SSA Joiner and head up the New York field office. Hotch doesn't recommend him though because he doesn't trust his co-workers.