Personal Life
As a child, Bates' mother Jean was an alcoholic, and Bates' older brother Jarvis was shot dead when he was 22 and Patrick was still a junior in high school. Bates, Jarvis, and their younger sister Sonia Nicole had spent time under foster care.
During his freshamn year at UCLA, Bates' mother and grandmother Isabel Singleton passed away within a month of each other.
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