ACTRESS and editor Yakira Chambers has died at the age of 42.
Her preliminary cause of death has been identified as acute asphyxia, her family told Deadline.
Chambers was reportedly with her mother outside a mall in Newport Beach, California, when she began having difficulty breathing and collapsed, the outlet reported on Monday.
She was known as a story editor on NCIS: Hawai’i and had acting roles in Insecure and The Misadventures of Awkward Black Girl
NCIS: Hawai’i will honor her in an episode that will air in January.
Chambers was also developing her own projects, including a TV pilot, at the time of her death, Deadline reported.
The Chicago native is survived by her husband Anthony Welch and mother Constance Chambers.
Her family said: “Her sudden and untimely death has left us all grief-stricken. Yakira was a light, a symbol of hope to our community, a steward of our culture, and a representation of what pursuing your dreams looks like.”
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