Jonshel Alexander, a onetime child actor who played a supporting role in the 2012 Oscar-nominated film “Beasts of the Southern Wild”, was killed in a weekend shooting in her native Louisiana.
She was 22. Police said Alexander and a man were shot inside a vehicle Saturday in New Orleans and she was pronounced dead at the scene.
The man, whose name was not released, drove to a hospital for treatment. Read more: B.C. teen actor Logan Williams died of fentanyl overdose, coroner’s report finds At age 12, Alexander played the character Joy Strong in “Beasts of the Southern Wild”, a drama filmed near Houma recounting the story of a poor Louisiana bayou community struggling for survival.
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