{"id":23706,"date":"2013-08-22T14:58:31","date_gmt":"2013-08-22T18:58:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/?p=23706"},"modified":"2013-08-22T14:58:41","modified_gmt":"2013-08-22T18:58:41","slug":"former-disney-star-commits-suicide","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/?p=23706","title":{"rendered":"Former Disney Star Commits Suicide"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Former Disney star <b>Lee Thompson Young <\/b>was reportedly found dead on Monday, and the cause of death appears to be suicide.<\/p>\n<p>When<b> Young<\/b> reportedly did not report to work on the set of <em>\u201cRizzoli &amp; Isles,\u201d<\/em> fellow employees reportedly called the landlord of his L.A. home to see if they could locate him. And to the landlord\u2019s dismay, shortly after opening <b>Young\u2019s<\/b> door, he would reportedly find the actor\u2019s body.<\/p>\n<p>According to authorities, it appears tha<b>t Young<\/b> died from a self-inflicted gunshot wound.<b> Young <\/b>started his professional acting career at the age of 15 with TV movie <em>\u201cJohnny Tsunam<\/em>i.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Soon after, he would land a leading role as <em>\u201cJett Jackson\u201d<\/em> for the 2001 film <em>\u201cJett Jackson: The Movie,\u201d<\/em> which would spur the action-hero TV show<em> \u201cThe Famous Jett Jackson.\u201d<\/em> He also had a role in <em>\u201cFriday Night Lights\u2019<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>Young was 29.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former Disney star Lee Thompson Young was reportedly found dead on Monday, and the cause of death appears to be suicide. When Young reportedly did not report to work on the set of \u201cRizzoli &amp; Isles,\u201d fellow employees reportedly called the landlord of his L.A. home to see if they could locate him. And to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":210,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pmpro_default_level":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-23706","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-entertainment","pmpro-has-access"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23706","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/210"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=23706"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23706\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=23706"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=23706"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=23706"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}