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Taylor Swift's fans are saying "Long Live" to a chap Swiftie.
Jacob Lewis, 20, died connected April 22 aft being deed by a suspected drunk driver while leaving a Taylor Swift concert, according to section outlet KPRC. He was reportedly driving backmost from the Eras Tour show successful Houston, Texas with sister April Bancroft erstwhile they ran into car issues.
The 20-year-old was driving a Buick LaCrosse on South U.S. Highway 59 around 1:15 a.m. erstwhile the "vehicle became disabled," according to an April 24 press release from Houston constabulary that didn't sanction the victim. Authorities said helium stepped retired to propulsion their car erstwhile helium was deed by Alan Bryant Hayes, 34, driving a Volkswagen Beetle. Lewis died astatine the scene.
Lewis' dada Steve Lewis told KPRC that Hayes "stopped and got retired and helped my girl propulsion my son, propulsion Jacob from nether his driver-side tire." He said the alleged fishy past fled, adding, "Only aft that did helium get backmost successful his car and thrust disconnected and leave."
Hayes was yet taken into custody and charged with a DWI, arsenic good arsenic nonaccomplishment to halt and render aid, constabulary said. E! News has reached retired to the Harris Police Department for lawyer accusation for Hayes but has not heard back.
In the aftermath of his death, Swift's fans person been coming unneurotic to wage their respects with $13 donations—the singer's fortunate number—to Lewis' GoFundMe page, arsenic good arsenic stock lyrics from her affectional songs "Long Live" and "Bigger Than the Whole Sky." The donations have surpassed $120,000 arsenic of April 25.
Lewis' sister told KPRC however she was coping with the unimaginable nonaccomplishment of her brother. "It was the nighttime I had been looking guardant to for a precise agelong clip and turned for the implicit worst," Bancroft said. "What I anticipation volition beryllium the worst happening I person to unrecorded through."
She besides reflected connected the calamity connected Twitter, resharing a video of the siblings astatine the April 21 concert. "I cannot adjacent picture the symptom I consciousness astatine this infinitesimal for the nonaccomplishment of my brother," she tweeted. "We loved you truthful overmuch @taylorswift13. Thank you for making this our past representation together."
In airy of the enactment she's received from fans, Bancroft added, "I cannot explicit the overwhelming happiness and gratitude from each #Swiftie retired there. Thank you convey you convey you. I volition get to your messages yet if I haven't already, your words person inspired maine done my time truthful much."
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Lewis was taking a spread twelvemonth from Sam Houston State University erstwhile helium died, according to KPRC. He was passionate about Pokémon, Dungeons & Dragons and the Black Lives Matter movement, per his Twitter page.
"He was a truly talented histrion and singer," Lewis' dada told CBS' KHOU11 News. "[He] loved being connected signifier and performing. He was a bully person to a batch of radical astir him and conscionable a truly bully kid."
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