Actor
Thomas Jefferson Byrd was
shot to death on Monday in the streets of Atlanta.
The bullets hit him in the back.
He was one of Spike Lee's favorite actors, a director with whom he worked on numerous occasions.
According to the digital medium
TZM
, which announced the news of his death, the 70-year-old actor had multiple gunshot wounds to his back.
The health services could do nothing to save his life.
A friend said that they had seen him argue in a store before being shot.
"I am very sad to announce the tragic murder of our beloved brother Thomas Jefferson Byrd,"
Lee wrote on Instagram.
Byrd acted in
Clockers
,
Red Hook Summer
,
Chi-Raq
,
Sweet Blood of Jesus
,
Baboozled
,
He Got Game
,
Get On the Bus
,
Girl 6
,
Best of Brooklyn
,
Ray Charles
or
Set It Off
.
In 2003, he was awarded for his Broadway appearance in
August Wilson
's Ma Raine's Black Bottom
.
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