Hollywood director, John Singleton has passed away after his family ended his life support machine at age 51.
The late renowned director had a stroke on April 17 and was hospitalized in an intensive care unit at Los Angeles hospital before his death.
The statement issued by family of the late Singleton, stated that they directed doctors to pull him off life support on Monday, April 29 after he suffered a stroke earlier this month.
“It is with heavy hearts we announce that our beloved son, father and friend, John Daniel Singleton will be taken off of life support today.
“This was an agonizing decision, one that our family made, over a number of days, with the careful counsel of John’s doctors,” the statement said.
The 51-year-old movie director, producer and screenwriter behind the 1991 film “Boyz N the Hood” was nominated for an Oscar for his directing in his debut film “Boyz N the Hood,” .
The movie centered on three teenagers growing up amid violence in his home city.
Late Singleton, a native of South Los Angeles, was in his early 20s and fresh out of film school when he directed the film ‘Boyz Nthe Hood’.
The made him the first African-American and the youngest person ever to be nominated for be nominated for an Oscar award.
He went on to direct more than 10 films and TV series, including the recent FX crime drama “Snowfall,” about the 1980s crack cocaine epidemic in Los Angeles.
Some his most prominent films after his debut include “Poetic Justice” (1993), a romantic melodrama starring Janet Jackson and Tupac Shakur, and “Rosewood” (1997), about a historical white mob massacre against a town of black residents in Florida.
Singleton has also directed episodes of “Empire,” “American Crime Story,” and ‘Billions’, and survived by five children.
In addition to being the first black director to land an Academy Award nomination, he was also the youngest person to nab a directing mention, at the age of 24.
