Well Lloyd sadly ended up living that real life scenario- he ended up in prison, serving time for a double murder and ended up getting murdered. Here are the details of how Lloyd Avery went from being an up and coming actor from a quiet middle class neighborhood, to the real life gang member: (courtesy of King Magazine)
Lloyd leaned down, brazenly asked, “What’s up?” and released his grasp from the handlebars of his aluminum Mongoose. The officer opened his door, and Lloyd stumbled. He quickly recovered and sped west in an attempt to elude the cops but soon collided with another police vehicle. He was arrested for a double homicide.
“He was kind of meek,” says Malcolm Norrington, who played Knucklehead No. 1 to Lloyd’s Knucklehead No. 2 in Boyz. “He was not anything near a street guy. Within a year of Boyz, I was hearing about him missing auditions. I don’t remember when I heard about him joining [a gang]. I just remember being perplexed. To me, it was like, ˜What is he doing Blooding? Lloyd? C’mon.’”
Indeed, shortly after Boyz, Lloyd baffled those closest to him by leaving his middle-class neighborhood for the Jungle, a heavily Blood-affiliated area between La Brea Avenue, Crenshaw Boulevard, Santo Tomas Drive and Coliseum Street. Lloyd embraced his new home, tattooing the word “JUNGLEZ” above his left eyebrow.
“Instead of just being a Hollywood-like studio gangster, he was living it,” Che says, speaking from his mom Linda’s house. His voice, a soulful, gruff twang, is contemplative. “My brother turned into a for-real for-real gangster.” Apparently, Lloyd Avery never got over playing “Knucklehead No. 2.”
“I like to call it the Tupac Syndrome,” Che says. “He felt like he had
something to prove when he really didn’t. Even if you have money and fame, you will sacrifice all of that just to have respect from a bunch of thugs.” But unlike Pac’s demise under the glitz of the Vegas strip, Lloyd’s murder was far from glamorous. He was killed by his Satan-worshipping cellmate in Pelican Bay State Prison. Outside of his family, it wasn’t really news.
Not even to the corrections officers who took two days to discover his body.
It’s a tragic situation and there were clearly some deeper issues going on with Lloyd Avery II, but it’s just like the Old School saying goes: ‘You live by the sword you die by the sword.’