Boyz N The Hood director John Singleton has died at the age of 51, it has been confirmed.
The Hollywood filmmaker suffered a stroke on 17 April and had remained in a Kansas City hospital where he was placed in a medically-induced coma.
According to TMZ, Singleton’s family said he passed away ‘peacefully, surrounded by his family and friends.’
Singleton’s family confirmed his death just hours after they made the ‘agonising decision’ to take him off life support.
Explaining their difficult decision, the family said in a previous statement on Monday: ‘It is with heavy hearts we announce that our beloved son, father and friend, John Daniel Singleton will be taken off life support today.
‘This was an agonising decision, one that our family made, over a number of days, with the careful counsel of John’s doctors.’
Singleton is survived by five children – daughter Justice Maya and son Maasai with his former wife Tosha Lewis, daughter Hadar with his second wife Akosua Gyamama Busia, and another daughter, Isis, with model Mitzi Andrews. He is also father to a daughter named Cleopatra.
The filmmaker rose to prominence with 1991’s Boyz N The Hood, which starred Cuba Gooding Jr, Angela Bassett, Ice Cube and Laurence Fishburne. Singleton earned the best director Oscar for the critically-acclaimed drama, making him the youngest African-American director to do so at the age of 24.
Singleton was also best known for directing 2 Fast 2 Furious (2003), Shaft (2000) and Poetic Justice (1993), as well as episodes of Empire, Billions and American Crime Story.
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