"A FEW minutes before fatally shooting himself in the lobby of a housing project in the Claremont section of the Bronx, Paris Lane called his foster mother on his cellphone.
''Ma, do you love me?'' Paris, 21, asked Martha Williams, 56, who had cared for him in Harlem for the past six years.
''You know I do,'' Ms. Williams answered immediately. Then, with a flicker of suspicion, she demanded, ''What are you doing?''
''Ma, I love you more than life itself,'' the young man said. ''No matter what I do, don't stop loving me.'' Then, in the lobby of Gouverneur Morris Houses, where he had gone to visit a girlfriend who had jilted him, he ended his life with a 9-millimeter handgun. His death, on March 16, came to horrific public notice when videotape from a police surveillance camera that had captured the event was posted on a Web site devoted to violence and pornography."
CITYPEOPLE - The Rough Side of the Mountain - NYTimes.com