Groundbreaking actor Kyle Jean Baptiste dies in NY fall, age 21

[zwiebel]

Kyle Jean Baptiste, who achieved two Broadway firsts in being the youngest and the first black actor to play Jean Valjean in Les Misérables, has died in a fall in New York. He was 21.

His death happened at 4am Friday night/early Saturday in Brooklyn police say, when he was sitting on a fourth-floor fire escape with a 23-year-old woman, stood up and slipped backwards.

http://www.nbcsandiego.com/entertai...-Miserables-Actor-Dies-in-Fall-323327981.html

 

[katydid23]

OH NOOO> He was such a talented, amazing actor. What a tragic thing for such a young man. RIP Kyle Jean :rose: