Her son was a freshman at Instituto del Progreso Latino and spent his free time drawing in his room while listening to reggaeton music, she said. Manzano said she once heard Jasso, the oldest of three children, tell a school administrator that he couldn’t participate in after-school sports because he had to help the family work. The teen helped his mother and her boyfriend deliver newspapers around the city. The couple are longtime newspaper carriers for a distribution company in the city that contracts with Tribune parent company Tronc for delivery services, a Chicago Tribune spokeswoman confirmed.