Actor Thomas Jefferson Byrd Dead After Multiple Gunshots In The Back

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Bruce Haring pmc-editorial-managerA 30-year-old man was arrested Friday by Atlanta police in connection with the killing of film actor Thomas Jefferson Byrd.Suspect Antonio Demetrice Rhynes was arrested in an early-morning raid at an apartment complex, police said. He was booked into the Fulton County Jail.

Atlanta police on Friday announced a suspect had been arrested in connection to theThomas Jefferson Byrd homicide case. Antonio Demetrice Rhynes, 30, of Atlanta, was taken into custody Friday morning on suspicion of fatally shooting the actor, who appeared in such Spike Lee filmsClockers,He Got GameandRed Hook Summer.

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Gene Maddaus Senior Media WriterPolice arrested a man on Friday morning who is accused of murdering Thomas Jefferson Byrd, the character actor who appeared in several Spike Lee films.Antonio Demetrice Rhynes, 30, was arrested by a fugitive unit and SWAT team officers, according to the Atlanta Police Department.Rhynes is accused of shooting Byrd early on the morning of Saturday, Oct. 3.

A suspect has been arrested in the murder of actor Thomas Jefferson Byrd, whose was found dead near his Atlanta home after being shot numerous times in the.

Authorities in Atlanta are offering a $10,000 reward as they continue to search for the suspect who shot actor Thomas Jefferson Byrd. Best known for his roles in Spike Lee films, Byrd was found dead around 1:45 a.m.

Thomas Jefferson Byrd was an actor known for roles in Spike Lee films including “Clockers” and “Get on the Bus.”Byrd worked with Lee in a number of the acclaimed director’s films, beginning with 1995’s “Clockers,” in which he played a drug lord’s enforcer. Byrd would return to the big screen in Lee’s “Girl 6” (1996), “Get on the Bus” (1996), “He Got Game” (1998), “Bamboozled” (2000), “Red Hook Summer” (2012), “Da Sweet Blood of Jesus” (2014) and “Chi-Raq” (2015).

In an Instagram post Sunday, Lee said he was sad to announce Byrd’s death and recalled how the actor “did his thang” in his films including “Clockers,” “Chi-Raq,” “Bamboozled,” “He Got Game” and “Da Sweet Blood of Jesus,” among others.“May we all wish condolences and blessings to his family,” Lee wrote.

Spike Lee is paying tribute to late actorThomas Jefferson Byrd, who starredin a myriad of the director's films including Clockers, He Got Game and Red Hook Summer. Lee took to Instagram Sunday to reveal that Byrd was murdered Saturday night in Atlanta, Georgia.In his post, Lee shared a photo of Thomas as the character Errol Barnes in his 1995 film, Clockers.

Clockers, Bamboozled and Chi-Raq, was found over the weekend after police were called to a home in Atlanta.They found an unresponsive man, who was pronounced dead by paramedics from multiple gunshot wounds to the back, Atlanta police spokesperson Anthony Grant confirmed (via USA Today).Grant added that homicide detectives were “working to determine the circumstances surrounding the incident”.

View this post on InstagramA post shared by Spike Lee (@officialspikelee) on Oct 4, 2020 at 10:40am PDTByrd was a long time collaborator of Lee’s, working with the director on eight films from 1995 to 2015.

Actor Thomas Jefferson Byrd was shot and killed in an incident overnight in Atlanta, Georgia, according to news reports breaking on Sunday afternoon.