As a child, Lott was molested and beaten, according to CNN and court documents. He grew up watching family members use and sell crack cocaine. · When Lott was 14, a play-scuffle with his stepbrother Michael Barton, 17, escalated. Lott later said he remembered little about stabbing Michael with a hunting knife and that when he was told later what had happened, “I was crushed,” he told The Guardian. “My brother was dead and they said that I did it. That just killed me."