tWitch death: Ellen DeGeneres Show DJ Stephen Boss ‘dies by suicide’ aged 40
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Stephen “tWitch” Boss has died at the age of 40, according to US media reports.
Boss was best known as the famed DJ on The Ellen DeGeneres Show.
On Tuesday (13 December), according to TMZ, Boss’s “frantic” wife Allison Holker visited Los Angeles Police Department to report that Boss had uncharacteristically left home without his car.
The publication reports that the police department later responded to a call about a shooting at an LA hotel, where they found Boss dead from an apparent self-inflicted gunshot.
The Independent has contacted DeGeneres’s team for contact.
More reporting to come...
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