Actress and singer Shonka Dukureh has died at the age of 44, it has been confirmed.The entertainer made her film debut last month in the blockbuster Elvis, the Elvis Presley biopic also starring Tom Hanks and Austin Butler, playing Big Mama Thornton.
Metropolitan Nashville Police Department has said Dukureh was found in the bedroom of her apartment and that no foul play is suspected.Dukureh shared the apartment with her two young children and police said one of them found her unresponsive and ran to a neighbour’s house to raise the alarm.
The neighbour then called emergency services just before 9:30am on Thursday. A cause of death was not given and is yet to be classified with autopsy results from the Medical Examiner’s Office pending.
Nashville’s mayor John Cooper led tributes to Dukureh and tweeted: ‘Nashville mayor said: ‘My deepest condolences to the family of Shonka Dukureh.
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