Lloyd Avery II
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| Born | Lloyd Fernandez Avery, Jr. June 21, 1969 Los Angeles, California, U.S. |
| Died | September 4, 2005 (aged 36) |
| Cause of death | Murder |
| Occupation | Actor |
| Years active | 1990–2001 |
Lloyd Fernandez Avery II (June 21, 1969 – September 4, 2005) was an American actor. He was best known for his character in John Singleton's Oscar-nominated film Boyz n the Hood (1991), as the triggerman who murdered high school football star Ricky Baker and was later killed in retaliation. In 2005, Avery was convicted of double homicide, and later killed in prison by his cellmate.[1]
Early life[]
Born in Los Angeles, California, Avery grew up in View Park where he attended Beverly Hills High School. Avery was of African American and Mexican descent.
Career[]
Shortly after his film debut in Boyz n the Hood, he landed a short stint on the hit television series Doogie Howser, M.D.. Singleton would cast Avery once again in his next film, Poetic Justice.
Avery remerged in 2000 starring as Nate in the 2000 film Lockdown and as G-Ride in the 2001 independent film Shot.
Arrest and death[]
In 2001, soon after wrapping Shot, Avery was arrested and charged with a double homicide, for which he was sentenced to life imprisonment.[2] He died on September 4, 2005 in Crescent City, California, after being beaten and strangled to death by his Pelican Bay State Prison cellmate Kevin Roby.
Filmography[]
- Boyz n the Hood (1991)
- Poetic Justice (1993)
- Don't Be a Menace to South Central While Drinking Your Juice in the Hood (1996)
- The Breaks (1999)
- Lockdown (2000)
- Shot (2001)
References[]
- ^ Malcolm, S. (30 October 2007). "Stranger Than Fiction". King Mag. Retrieved 2020-12-22.
- ^ "Supermax jail tipped to hold 'Golden State Killer'". www.9news.com.au. Retrieved 2020-12-22.
External links[]
- Lloyd Avery II at IMDb
- Lloyd Avery II At Find A Grave
- Beverly Hills High School alumni
- Male actors from Los Angeles
- African-American male actors
- American male film actors
- Prisoners murdered in custody
- American male television actors
- American people who died in prison custody
- Murdered African-American people
- People murdered in California
- Prisoners who died in California detention
- 1969 births
- 2005 deaths
- Deaths by strangulation in the United States
- Deaths by beating in the United States
- Burials at Inglewood Park Cemetery
- 20th-century American male actors
- American people convicted of murder