- Ché Avery was an advantaged child who had the best education and comfortable life but got attracted to street life and crimes
- He had a successful life as both an upright student and entertainer and also a gang member with Rollin 60’s gang
- Though Ché was able to escape the gang-filled life and turned a new leaf, his brother, Lloyd II, unfortunately, died while serving time.
Ché Avery is the younger brother to Lloyd Avery who despite being born with a silver spoon, delved into the life of gangsterism. He was once a member of the notorious Rollin Sixties Crips. but later renounced his association with that.
Though he was able to get away after repentance, his older brother wasn’t so lucky. Lloyd ended up being murdered in prison despite also turning a new leaf.
Ché Avery now lives a new life and regrets his rough, dark past, however, the debris from his former self still finds a way to hover around him.
Ché Avery was Born an Advantaged Child
He was born on October 7, 1971, in Los Angeles, California. Avery Ché grew up as the middle child in a family of 5 kids. He is also one of the only 2 boys born to his parents. Ché Avery’s parents are Lloyd Sr. and Linda Avery who worked really hard to secure a comfortable life for their family.
Lloyd Sr. was a businessman who founded a repair business while his wife, Linda, was a senior accounting clerk at a local bank. According to research, Ché’s mother had to fight her way through discriminatory practices in order to be hired by the bank.
Speaking about being born with a silver spoon in his mouth, Avery’s parents made sure that their children had the finest things in life. These things included quality education, vacations, extracurricular activities, and a pool close to their home.
All these were done in order for the Avery kids to be dissuaded from joining gangs and remaining on the right path. However, this wasn’t the case as Ché still found himself entangled with gangster life as a teenager.
Despite Being in Gangs, He Still Had Prospects of Being Successful
While Lloyd and Linda did all they could to separate their kids from the notorious bunch in L.A. they were unsuccessful. Sending him to Beverly Hills High School instead of Crenshaw High was their first good attempt that flopped.
The parents of 5 thought their children not mixing with the locals around, would be better people eventually. Beverly Hills High School was the school for wards of rich people and fewer gangs.
However, they were not very careful. Enrolling Ché into the bus program for transportation to school ended up being a loophole that the teenager rode on. Invariably, being fascinated by HipHop and the way the artists dress, the younger brother of Lloyd II began to dress like them.
As his fame began to grow, so was his desire for more fame and respect. Interestingly, he got his desires in school – academically and socially. Ché was an academically sound student who did really well in his studies. Given that his dress and mannerism was different, he also got attention from students and other people.
Lloyd Avery’s son was so good that he got accepted into prestigious universities such as UCLA and UC Berkeley, upon graduation from High School. He chose neither and instead decided to remain close to home and follow in his father’s footsteps.
He however had a stint in Hollywood when he and his brother made it to the movie set of Boyz in the Hood. His unique dress sense at the time got him special recognition and he was made to be an unofficial film consultant. Ché also played the role of a thug in the movie Poetic Justice.
Nonetheless, Ché was further exposed to gangs which tempted him even more. Soon, he created DGF (Don’t Give a F*ck) Crew. Initially, this gang was nothing like the famous gangs around at the time. Ché was mostly interested in partying and chasing girls. They engaged in minor criminal activities but nothing life-threatening.
Ché’s Ganglife with the Rollin’ Sixties was Shortlived
Soon, the founder of DGF became more than willing to commit crimes that were seemingly minor and so grew more famous. By 1990, he became so famous, he got the attention of the notorious gang crew, Rollin 60’s.
He never got to speak about what he did with and for this gang but he was quite active with them for the duration he was initiated. This involvement even earned him the title of ‘BK’ which meant Blood Killer’.
After a series of unfortunate killings of his gang members including 14-year-old Jason Jones who was shot over 72 times, Ché became enraged. His anger made him become more dangerous and he began to walk about with a revolver.
Rollin 60’s gang member, Avery, began to rob people of things such as jewelry and jackets. He had no need for these things and so he gave them out and confessed that he only drew satisfaction from seeing people scared of him.
A year into being a fully initiated Rollin’ 60’s gang member, Ché was arrested. He was part of a failed robbery attempt and upon his arrest, he was linked to other crimes that he partook in.
By 1991, he was jailed and remained there for a couple of months before he stood trial after pleading guilty.
Avery Had a Change of Heart After His Arrest
During the period he stayed awaiting trial, Ché had time to reflect on his life’s decisions. He realized that he chose a bad path and should have done better to resist it. With the love from his parents and his realization, he swore never to go back to that life.
Ché began to amend his pathway from prison and made an official denouncement of his gang.
He openly accepted all his crimes which bordered on felonies and robberies. Ché Avery did so before his parents whom he begged for forgiveness from, and also in court. He accepted that he went down a path he had no business going through and would gladly serve his sentence.
While doing time, Ché was faced with a lot of difficulties that stemmed from the fact that he was a gang member. He was attacked by gang members in prison and had to find ways of defending himself.
Eventually, he took up artistry and became good at carpentry works. He would also learn how to make cabinets as he formed a relationship with former gang members who helped him refocus his attention on more productive things.
When Ché had done time and was to be released, he had become a new man. He imbibed the values his parents tried to instill in him. Also, he chose a quiet, hardworking, honest life outside the criminal one he got attracted to as a teen.
His Brother was Killed in Prison by a Satanist
Ché was lucky to have gone through the stages he went through and left victoriously. His brother was however not so lucky.
Lloyd II was on the good side of the law and moral values when his brother went about with gangsters. However, by the time Ché was undergoing trial, Lloyd was well on his way to being arrested.
The brother of repented Rollin’ 60’s member, had taken to a life of crime. He, just like his brother, deviated from family values and became involved in more serious criminal activities.
Lloyd was an actor in Hollywood and this opened him to a life of criminal activities. As a gang member, he was involved in robberies, drug dealing, and even homicide.
Soon, he also met his doom and was arrested, tried, and sentenced. While incarcerated, just like his brother, he repented. He even became a true Christian who went about preaching the gospel and winning souls. Lloyd Avery was even nicknamed ‘Baby Jesus’ in the Pelican Bay State Prison he was kept.
It was Lloyd’s evangelical work that eventually led to his death. While serving time, he was put in the same cell with a proclaimed Satanist. This spelled doom but Ché Avery’s brother believed it was the will of God.
The cellmates got into several altercations over spirituality and this caused Roby Kevin, the cellmate and Satanist, to kill him.
According to the reports gotten, Roby strangled Lloyd, beat his unconscious body severely, and dealt a huge blow to his head. He however conceded his deed by carefully covering up Avery II’s body for a couple of days and succeeded in deceiving prison wards.
Lloyd’s dead body was only found when Roby dumped him in the middle of a pentagram. He performed a satanic ritual on Lloyd stating that it was a warning to God. Lloyd II died on September 4, 2005, at the age of 36.
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What Happened to Ché Avery after His Release?
Ché moved out of L. A to Augusta to start a new life with his family. The one-time celebrity won a Trade Tech Scholarship accompanied by $2,500 worth of tools.
He tried escaping the life he had pre-prison and all the affiliations he had. However, even in Augusta, he realized that there were also members of his former gang there.
Undeterred, 53-year-old Ché continued with his new life and sake of his brother’s death, wouldn’t go back to those ways.
As a reminder of his brother, Ché named his youngest son ‘Lloyd’ and also kept stuff from his brother. Some of the things he went away with and cherished dearly were a BMX bike and the Bible Lloyd had in prison.
