Horrible news to report friends.
Actor Paul Walker, the star “Fast & Furious,” died Saturday in a car crash in Southern California. He was only 40.
His publicist Ame van Iden confirmed his death, but said she could not elaborate beyond statements posted on Paul’s official Twitter and Facebook accounts.
Paul was a passenger in a friend’s car and both were attending a charity event for his organization, Reach Out Worldwide, in the community of Valencia in Santa Clarita, about 30 miles north of Hollywood.
The website for the charity said the Saturday event was intended to benefit victims of Typhoon Haiyan in the Philippines.
The crash took place about 3:30 p.m. (6:30 p.m. ET), about 300 yards from the office park where the event was held.
A sheriff’s deputy at the scene, said a red Porsche appeared to have lost control. Deputies arrived at the scene to find a vehicle on fire, the sheriff’s department said in a statement.
Once fire crews put the flames out, they found two occupants, both of whom were pronounced dead at the scene.
Paul’s first few movie roles were as supporting characters in teen flicks, most notably in “Varsity Blues.”
His career really took off when he was cast as undercover cop Brian O’Conner infiltrating a street-racing gang in 2001’s “The Fast and the Furious.”
At the time of his death, Paul was working on the seventh film of the franchise, due out next year.
This is so sad. It’s a realization of just how precious life is
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