“Sons of Anarchy” Actor Johnny Lewis Found Dead
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Mark Sullivan/WireImage(LOS ANGELES) — A young actor best known for a role on the hit motorcycle club series Sons of Anarchy has been found dead outside a Los Angeles home along with an elderly woman.
The L.A. coroner’s office has identified the male found by police outside a home in the Los Feliz neighborhood on Wednesday as Jonathan Kendrick Lewis, 28, also known as Johnny Lewis. Officers responding to a report of a screaming woman came upon Lewis’ body outside of the home on the driveway, while the body of the woman who was in her 70s was found inside the residence.
“He appeared to have died from some type of fall, either from the stairway, or from the balcony, or from one of the roofs,” LAPD Commander Andrew Smith told ABC News affiliate KABC-TV.
“The best we’re piecing together now is that it appears that some type of altercation occurred inside of the house resulting in the death of the woman. Then this individual ran outside, had an altercation with a couple of neighbors, ran back into the house and by the time we got here, he had fallen or had somehow died on the driveway,” said Smith.
Lewis is considered a suspect in the homicide investigation, KABC reported. A neighbor and a handyman were badly beaten in a confrontation they had with the suspect.
The cause of death of the woman has not yet been released, but Smith said that she had suffered major trauma. Smith said that though it is possible that Lewis was renting one of the rooms in the residence, police are still unsure, calling it “very preliminary.”
Lewis, who began acting in his teenage years, worked steadily in television in roles on Boston Public, American Dreams and The O.C. His career picked up steam when he landed the role of Kip ‘Half Sack’ Epps on two seasons of Sons of Anarchy and appeared alongside Dakota Fanning and Kristen Stewart in The Runaways in 2010.
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