Lyle Pickering

Pickering, Lyle

Appeared in Connections in Death (March, 2061), mentioned in Golden in Death (April 28-May 2, 2061), and referenced in Passions in Death (Monday, August 15 - Friday, August 19, 2061)

Personal Information

• Description: Fit, healthy, with hair in short dreads and eyes nearly the same shade as his sister’s
• Relationships: Rochelle (sister); Martin (older brother); Walter (younger brother); unnamed parents (both dead); Deborah (maternal grandmother); niece; nibling-to-be; Clara (sister-in-law)
• Age at TOD: 26
• Address: Second floor apartment in a five story Lower West Side building, New York, NY
• Occupation: Short-order cook at Casa del Sol

History

• Grew up in the Bowery.
• His father did time for illegals and died in prison when Rochelle was 15.
• His mother self-terminated shortly after his father died.
• He was raised by his maternal grandmother after his parents died.
• His older brother went to trade school, had a plumbing business in Tribeca, was married, and had a three-year-old daughter and another child on the way
• His younger brother was in law school at Columbia on scholarship.

Criminal History

• Theft and possession as a juvenile and as an adult
• Truancy, petty theft, tagging buildings, illegals, and the gang
• Busted for possession and malicious mischief while still a minor - stint in juvie, rehab, community service
• As an adult he was charged when he was in a fight with a rival gang member. Both had knives over the legal limit and he had possession of Zeus, Erotica, and other substances with a street value of $6,000 - prison time

Homicide Information

• Died from an OD:
  • Dinnie Duff entered his apartment under the pretense of being ready to get help for her addiction, and then let in the men who killed Lyle and set it up to look like an OD, but not well - they started by tranqing him with Out before pumping enough Go into him to kill him twice over.
  • Killed by Barry “Fist” Aimes, Burke “Ticker” Chesterfield, and Denby “Snapper” Washington

Interesting Facts

• He did time as a juvenile for theft and possession, the same as an adult, and belonged to the Bangers. He had been out of prison for two years and completed rehab, clean and no longer with the Bangers when he was murdered.
• He completed rehab, got a cooking certificate and parole - the halfway house bridge, then the condition that he lived with a family member for a year and sought gainful employment.
• He met all the parole provisions, submitted to random drug tests and met the prison therapist once a month over coffee.
• He had been in the process of removing the Bangers gang tattoo from his arm - it was a fist encircled with the word Banger.
• Officer Norton told Eve she and her partner, Officer Zutter, had busted him a time or two - “addict, asshole, had some violence in there, but it was mostly the Go.” Zutter agreed, “He sure liked his Go.”