A finalist on “American Idol” has died in a motor vehicle crash in Tennessee.
Willie Spence, 23, died Tuesday soon after hitting the rear of a tractor-trailer that was stopped on the shoulder of Interstate 24 East in the vicinity of Chattanooga, according to information retailers, which cited a Tennessee Highway Patrol report.
Both equally motorists ended up sporting seatbelts, and the truck driver wasn’t injured, the crash report reported.
Spence, who was from Ga, completed in second position on year 19 of “American Idol” past yr.
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The singing opposition present released a statement on social media, stating Spence “was a genuine expertise who lit up each and every place he entered.”
We are devastated about the passing of our beloved American Idol household member, Willie Spence,” the assertion reads. “We mail our condolences to his beloved ones.”
Singer Luke Bryan, a choose on the present, claimed Spence “could modify the mood instantaneously when he began singing.”
“He will certainly be skipped,” Bryan stated on Twitter.
