Lloyd Avery II - wikipedia Lloyd Avery II This article needs additional citations for verification. Please help improve this article by adding citations to reliable sources. Unsourced material may be challenged and removed. ( March 2016 ) Lloyd Avery Jr. Lloyd F. Avery, Jr. June 21, 1969 Los Angeles, California, U.S. September 4, 2005 ( 2005 - 09 - 04 ) ( aged 36 ) Crescent City, California, U.S. Cause of death Murder Occupation Actor Years active 1990 -- 2005 Lloyd 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. Contents 1 Early life and career 2 Arrest and death 3 Filmography 4 References 5 External links Early life and career Born in Los Angeles, California, Avery grew up in View Park where he attended Beverly Hills High School. 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. He went on to appear in another role in Do n't Be a Menace to South Central While Drinking Your Juice in the Hood. Avery emerged back on the scene in 2000 starring as Nate in the critically acclaimed 2000 film Lockdown and as G - Ride in the 2001 independent film Shot. Arrest and death In 2005, soon after wrapping Shot, Avery was arrested for a double homicide and sentenced to life in prison. On the evening of September 4, 2005, Avery was killed in his cell in Pelican Bay State Prison. He was struck on the head and strangled by Kevin Roby, his Satan - worshiping cellmate. Despite 11 inmate counts overall, including standing counts, Lloyd 's body was not discovered until Roby laid his corpse on a pentagram he had drawn on the cell floor with blood from Lloyds lifeless body and performed a satanic ritual over it on September 6. Filmography Boyz n the Hood ( 1991 ) Poetic Justice ( 1993 ) Do n't Be a Menace to South Central While Drinking Your Juice in the Hood ( 1996 ) The Breaks ( 1999 ) Lockdown ( 2000 ) Shot ( 2001 ) References Jump up ^ Golianopoulos, Thomas ( 2007 - 10 - 30 ). `` Stranger Than Fiction ''. king-mag.com. Retrieved 12 October 2010. Jump up ^ https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5213c146e4b07172002f2e57/t/5220f436e4b0f8aab6d9a274/1377891382134/NOV+07_Lloyd_Avery.pdf External links Biography portal Lloyd Avery II on IMDb Lloyd Avery II At Find A Grave Retrieved from `` https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Lloyd_Avery_II&oldid=821994673 '' Categories : Beverly Hills High School alumni Male actors from Los Angeles African - American male actors American male film actors American male television actors American people who died in prison custody Murdered African - American people Murdered American actors Murdered male actors 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 Hidden categories : Articles needing additional references from March 2016 All articles needing additional references Pages to import images to Wikidata Articles with hCards Talk Contents About Wikipedia Deutsch Türkçe Edit links This page was last edited on 23 January 2018, at 20 : 37. About Wikipedia

Question: who played the shooter in boyz in the hood
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