Former Disney star Lee Thompson Young has died aged twenty nine when suicide. There was no official reason behind
death, however Young's manager
confirmed Mon that the known Jett Jackson actor 'tragically
took his own life.' 'Lee was quite simply an excellent young actor, he was an exquisite and delicate soul who
are really lost,' aforesaid Paul Baruch. 'We ask that you simply please respect the privacy of his family and
friends as this terribly tough time.'
Young's body was found at his
North Hollywood home by police Monday morning when he didn't show up for work
on TNT's crime drama Rizzoli & Isles, policeman Sally Madera said. The
los angeles fire department was summoned and pronounced him dead at the scene,
she said.
LAPD robbery-homicide detectives
and also the la County investigator workplace were investigation as a result of
it's a high-profile death, she said. Madera had no details regarding the reason
behind death. According to TMZ, the actor died
from a self-inflicted shooting wound. Young's death remains a mystery
as a result of he didn't leave a suicide note, TMZ reported , and though the
actor did have a diary none of the writings justify the reasoning behind him
taking his own life.
In addition, Young was last seen
on Saturday and law enforcement officers believe that the star might have
committed suicide that very same day, the web site conjointly reported. According to a biography from
TNT, Young was impressed to pursue acting once, at age, 10, he contend Martin
Luther King boy. in a very play in Young's town of Columbia, South Carolina.
Young followed his stint at
Disney it with roles in TV series, as well as The Guardian, Scrubs and
Smallville and within the films Akeelah and also the Bee and also the Hills
Have Eyes II. Young joined Rizzoli & Isles once it debuted in 2010. Young aforementioned in 2011 that
he valued his begin as a child star.
'It's continually a very nice
feeling once I ask those that watched Jett Jackson, as a result of we have a
tendency to were a similar age,' he told EW.com. 'We were all youngsters. i
used to be thirteen once I started engaged on that show which was a part of my
childhood. And it's reasonably like we've got that in common.
'It suggests that plenty to Maine
once individuals enjoyed it and once it had been a region of their childhood,'
he added.
'It's cool after you see
individuals revert back for a fast second to lyceum, and they are like,
"Oh, man! I bear in mind...
" It's extremely nice to me that our work
remains with individuals when ten years.'
Young, a graduate of University
of Southern California college of medium Arts, was a fanatical photographer,
traveller and student of martial arts, consistent with his life.
Production on TNT’s hit drama
Rizzoli & Isles has been finish off in lightweight of the sudden passing of co-star Lee Thompson Young, whose
body was discovered in his flat when he didn't show up for work this morning.
The producers of the series, within which Thompson contend star Angie Harmon’s
partner on the force, ar presently evaluating whether or not to resume
production tomorrow or persist hiatus whereas the solid and crew deal with
Young’s death and writers find out the way to write off his character.
Here is TNT, Rizzoli &
Isles‘ studio Warner Bros TV and executive producer Janet Tamaro’s statement
nowadays on Young’s death: “Everyone at Rizzoli & Isles is ruined by
the news of the passing of Lee Thompson Young. we have a tendency to ar on the
far side sorrowful at the loss of this sweet, gentle, kind, intelligent man. He
was really a member of our family. Lee are cherished and remembered by all UN
agency knew and idolized him, each on- and offscreen, for his positive energy,
infectious smile and emotional grace. we have a tendency to send our deepest
condolences and thoughts to his family, to his friends and, most importantly,
to his beloved mother.”
