Do you remember the Sons of Archery actor Johnny Lewis who played kip in the series? It’s sure that not too many people know about him, he was an actor in the Hollywood film and television industry, but his death shocked everyone who where closely connected to him or has worked with him, but the question here comes what exactly happened with him and how he died in shocked circumstances?
However, recently there has been a huge talk around the corners regarding Johnny Lewis, the late actor has been very much a topic of talk among many people; they are still confused regarding what happened to this actor and what led him to die.
Working and being part of some of the great shows in the television and film industry, the actor resorted to crime and drugs, which destroyed his career and led him to jail a lot more times.
This article will thus give you a brief detail regarding who this actor was if you don’t know, what happened to him and what made his life to end.
Who is Johnny Lewis?
Johnny Lewis was a film and television actor; he has been famous in the industry, doing some roles in a good amount of movies and television shows. However, he is not very popular in the industry, but altogether he is known to date Katy Perry in Hollywood.
He essentially grew up in Los Angeles, and his parents are Scientologists; he was Scientologist for most of his life but initially wanted to be an actor. Therefore, he went on a journey to pursue an acting career when he was 18 years old.
He has played roles such as Kip in Half-Sack Epps in Sons of Anarchy; he also begged a role as Gilby in the television show The Sausage Factory while also gaining some supporting roles in films such as Underclassman, Felon, The Runaways, etc.
He has been linked with one of the greatest music stars in Hollywood, Katy Perry, whom he dated in his initial successful years in Hollywood. Even though he is not that much known by people, he has been a great actor and also has attained greater positive reviews from critics over his actions on the projects that he has acted on.
What happened to Johnny Lewis?
Johnny Lewis, in the time of his career, has always been in the headlines, with the kind of legal troubles he did and in which he trapped himself onto. Also, his mental state and his continuous urge to get involved in crimes led into the reason of his death in 2012.
He had been arrested three times between 2011 and 2012 when he struck two men on their heads with a bottle and thus engaged in a fight with them, and this was not the first time when he was involved in something.
His second arrest was when he broke into a woman’s house; however, the reasons for his constant crimes and fighting, breaking into their homes for no reason and abusing them came when it was revealed that he was suffering from psychological and mental health illness, which triggered his situation. He gets intensively involved in the frequent crimes that he did at that time.
How did Johnny Lewis Die?
Johnny Lewis’s death is a question that everyone wants an answer to; on September 26, 2012, the Los Angeles Police Department got a call from a woman who was screaming and shouting in the call.
The police then went to the actual location, and they came to realize that the actor was lying dead on the driveway and had previously been fighting with two men, and therefore the main reason behind his death at that time came out that he had fallen from the top of the building which leads to his death.
Also, when in the process of investigation, police found a body of an 81-year-old dead woman, and thereafter it was suspected that initially, Johnny killed the woman, whereas as the body of the dead cat was also found, this all led to very dark scenarios at that time.
Essentially Johnny Lewis’s murder reason was considered a homicide. Still, it’s sad that a flourishing actor who wanted to do something in his life and was even gaining popularity by garnering good roles in the films and television industry got involved in crime, drugs, substance abuse, assault, etc., which even triggered the whole situation.
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