Darel Evans - an anti-violence advocate and regular cast member on the Sundance reality series Brick City - has passed away at the age of 33.
Evans was reportedly shot to death. Sources say there is no clear motive, and no suspects have been identified.
A former Crips gang member who turned his life around and devoted himself to mentoring at-risk youth, Evans was frequently featured in the award-wining series about the difficulties of life in the slums of Newark, New Jersey.
"It's hard to extract yourself from the level of violence in urban America," said Brick City producer Mark Benjamin in a statement issued today.
"As hard as he tried, it caught up with him. He was writing, he was doing comedy and sketches and he had different jobs. He had different children from a few different women. He had lots of love to give. The street caught up with him."
Evans - who was still known by may in the community by his gang name, "Creep" - became an aspirational figure to hundreds of young Newark residents in his final years.
Sadly, the violence he so passionately campaigned against caught up with him in the end.
"The senseless violence of young black men dying on the streets of America is a sick, sick situation," Benjamin said.
"It's a shame on America and I think he knew, Creep knew. I think politicians know that the only thing that's going to stop a bullet is a job. And short of that, this will continue, all this violence."
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