Shortly after the car-crash incident, Avant's best friend, future Duke basketball star Sean Dockery, talked Avant into double-dating with a pair of girls Dockery knew. They picked them up in respectable Hyde Park - the Main Line of Chicago's South Side. Afterward, one of the girls asked to be dropped off in the Low End, north of Hyde Park and twice as dangerous. She then sent a text from the back seat. As Avant dropped her off, a van pulled up behind his car, slowly trolled past, the driver glaring at Avant. It then went up the one-way street, around a curve. When Avant came around the curve he saw the same van, its headlights glaring at him, facing the wrong way on the street. He stopped. Then, he saw a gang of 16 armed black men charging his own car. "Bats. Bricks. Knives. Guns."