Investigators are probing whether the bizarre rampage was fueled by a popular new synthetic drug called Smiles, police say.
Johnny Lewis pictured at the 36th Toronto International Film Festival in Sept. 2011.
An actor in the series “Sons of Anarchy,” who was once Katy Perry’s lover, killed his elderly landlady and dismembered her cat before plummeting off a roof to his death in Los Angeles Wednesday, sources said.
Investigators are probing whether Johnny Lewis’ bizarre rampage was fueled by a popular new synthetic drug called Smiles, police said.
Lewis, 28, whose life had been in a downward spiral since his glory days dating the buxom singer, stormed into the apartment of his 81-year-old landlady, Catherine Chabot David, about 10:40 a.m.
Investigators are probing whether Johnny Lewis’ bizarre rampage was fueled by a popular new synthetic drug called Smiles, police said.
Lewis, 28, whose life had been in a downward spiral since his glory days dating the buxom singer, stormed into the apartment of his 81-year-old landlady, Catherine Chabot David, about 10:40 a.m.
The unhinged actor, who played one-testicled biker-gang wanna-be “Half Sack” on “Sons of Anarchy,” smashed David’s furniture and beat and strangled her.
He then fled the killing, hopped a nearby fence and confronted one of David’s neighbors, Daniel Blackburn, and a handyman. He may have fought them off with a two-by-four and possibly a paint-roller, police said.
He then fled the killing, hopped a nearby fence and confronted one of David’s neighbors, Daniel Blackburn, and a handyman. He may have fought them off with a two-by-four and possibly a paint-roller, police said.
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Police on the scene where Johnny Lewis was found dead outside a L.A. home Wednesday.
He jumped back over the fence and climbed onto the roof of the sprawling Spanish-style home where he rented a room after getting out of jail on an assault rap last week, police said. By the time cops arrived, Lewis was dead in the driveway after having either leaped or fallen from the roof.
“We still don’t have a motive, whether this was just the random act of somebody acting crazy or whether there was some type of altercation or dispute,” LAPD Commander Andrew Smith said, noting investigators will run tests to determine if Lewis was on a twisted Smiles high.
“There are several new drugs that are coming out after bath salts got outlawed,” Smith said. “We don’t have any hard evidence that he was on anything.”
Perry was devastated over his death, a source told Us Weekly.
Lewis’ acting career spanned 12 years and included a star turn in 2007’s “Aliens vs. Predator — Requiem,” as well as recurring roles on the TV series “The O.C.” and “American Dream.”
“We still don’t have a motive, whether this was just the random act of somebody acting crazy or whether there was some type of altercation or dispute,” LAPD Commander Andrew Smith said, noting investigators will run tests to determine if Lewis was on a twisted Smiles high.
“There are several new drugs that are coming out after bath salts got outlawed,” Smith said. “We don’t have any hard evidence that he was on anything.”
Perry was devastated over his death, a source told Us Weekly.
Lewis’ acting career spanned 12 years and included a star turn in 2007’s “Aliens vs. Predator — Requiem,” as well as recurring roles on the TV series “The O.C.” and “American Dream.”
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Johnny Lewis and Katy Perry pictured in 2006.
Despite his glamorous job, Lewis spent much of this year behind bars. He was convicted in August in separate crimes from earlier this year — for smashing a man in the head with a bottle in January and for a burglary in February, court records show. He got jail time for both crimes, but his sentence was reduced because of jail overcrowding and because he did court-ordered rehab.
Following his death, his father described his son as “the bright star of our lives.”
“We always looked up to him, and now I guess we’ll have to look up a little higher,” Michael Lewis, 62, said.
Following his death, his father described his son as “the bright star of our lives.”
“We always looked up to him, and now I guess we’ll have to look up a little higher,” Michael Lewis, 62, said.
