The words “run and don’t look back” were the last that Erik Isidore heard before he was fatally shot Dec. 17, at about 3 a.m. Isidore’s mother, Iris Isidore, said her son was walking back from a club with a friend when a black man wearing jeans and a hooded shirt approached Isidore and his friend from behind with a gun. The man demanded that the two give up not only their money but their clothes as well. The man told them to run and not look back. Then he began firing his gun. “Black kids are the most endangered species in the world. Caucasian, Hispanic and Puerto Ricans are not killing one another, but young black males are killing up one another for drugs and clothes. I never thought it would happen to my child,” Iris Isidore said.The New Orleans Police Department said it would be unable to to comment on Erik Isidore’s case by press time. Isidore’s childhood was filled with hardship, his mother said. He went to different schools trying to cope with his hyperactivity disorder. It was during that tumultuous period that he developed a passion for writing. “When he was in the fourth grade, his journals just got longer and longer. He was always the hero of the story,” his mother said. Later in life, Isidore fell into the wrong crowd, but managed to turn himself around, his mother said. “We struggled so long with this child, but he got himself together and started doing what he needed to be doing,” she said.Before transferring to Loyola, Isidore attended Delgado Community College, where he was the editor in chief of the school newspaper, The Dolphin.Erik had just completed his first semester at Loyola. He was involved in theatre and had a role in the production of “Much Ado About Nothing.” Isidore also wrote for The Maroon. The Rev. Ernest Ferlita, S.J., who directed the play, said, “[Isidore] did very good work, and it was a pleasure to work with him.”Students were notified by e-mail of Isidore’s death “He was a bright, funny guy and was unpredictable in the way he acted,” said Brian Mervant, fellow cast member, Isidore’s funeral was held Saturday, Dec.. 22. Loyola sponsored an interfaith memorial service Thursday at 4:30 p.m. in St. Ignatius Chapel.”Erik was a very good-hearted kid,” his mother said. “There’s not a day that goes by that the pain does not come. We thought our child would grow up and give us grandchildren.”