Lloyd Fernandez Avery II was an American actor. He was born on June 21, 1969, and died on September 4, 2005.
In the 1991 Oscar-nominated movie Boyz n the Hood by John Singleton, he played one of the Bloods who killed high school football star Ricky Baker (played by Morris Chestnut) and was then killed by Doughboy in retaliation.
Avery was found guilty of killing two people in 2005, and his cellmate later killed him in prison. Avery was born in Los Angeles, California, and grew up in the neighborhood of View Park.
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He went to Beverly Hills High School. Avery was part African and part Mexican. Boyz n’ the Hood was Avery’s first movie, and Singleton used him again in his next movie, Poetic Justice, which came out soon after (1993).
Avery came back to the public eye in 2000 when he played Nate in the movie Lockdown. In 2001, he played G-Ride in the independent movie Shot.
Soon after the filming of Shot ended in 2001, Avery was arrested and charged with killing two random people. For this, he was given a life sentence in prison.
He was killed on September 4, 2005, in Crescent City, California, at the age of 36. His Pelican Bay State Prison cellmate Kevin Roby beat and strangled him as part of a Satanic ritual meant to “warn God.”
