Boy, 16, shot by police, lived and died in one of city's toughest neighborhoods - Chicago Tribune
We never knew he was doing all this stuff because we gave him his privacy.
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Vantrease Frazier, Loury's stepfather
Loury's mother, Tambrasha Hudson, wore a white T-shirt bearing her son's picture as she sat near the boy's stepfather.
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Pierre Loury talked about going to college and becoming an engineer,
yet he skipped classes for nearly a year in high school.
He encouraged his little brother to stay in sports and out of gangs, yet he claimed to have joined the New Breeds around the age of 10.
He spent hours recording rap music in a converted bedroom closet, but toward the end of his short life his Facebook postings show him posing with guns, cash and drugs and talking of chasing rival dealers off his block.
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