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Johnny Lewis has been found dead. He was 28.
The actor (who previously dated Katy Perry) is believed to have killed his 81-year-old landlady Catherine Davis before leaping to his death from his home in Los Angeles yesterday.
The upstairs of the building had been ransacked and a cat had also been killed.
“It’s a terrible tragedy as far as we’re concerned and we’re digging into the bottom of it” – said Los Angeles Police Department Spokesman Andrew Smith.
“He appeared to have died from some type of fall, either from the stairway, or from the balcony, or from one of the roofs.
“The best we’re piecing together now is that it appears that some type of altercation occurred inside of the house resulting in the death of the woman.
“Then this individual ran outside, had an altercation with a couple of neighbours, ran back into the house and by the time we got here, he had fallen or had somehow died on the driveway.”
Officers initially responded to a 911 call that a woman was heard screaming. No motive for the killing is yet known.

Johnny Lewis.

The man who died a violent death on “Sons of Anarchy” three years ago apparently beat and strangled his landlady and attacked neighbors before falling or leaping to his own death in neighborhood near Hollywood on Wednesday afternoon.
They were the final violent acts of a man who in the previous 10 months had been repeatedly arrested, sent to counseling and had left jail only five days before his demise.
Court records and his attorney detailed attempts to help Lewis but not in time to help 81-year-old Catherine Davis – who neighbors reported screaming inside a home near the outskirts of Los Angeles’ Griffith Park. The home had been ransacked, glass was shattered and a dead cat was also found inside, and Lewis’ body was found in the driveway.
Lewis’ cause of death is pending toxicology results, Coroner’s investigative division Lt. Fred Corral said Thursday evening. Davis died from blunt head trauma and manual strangulation – he said.
The deaths came four months after a probation officer expressed grave concerns about Lewis’ mental health, writing that he was “very concerned for the well-being of not only the community but that of the defendant.”
Court records detail Lewis’ descent from January 2012, when he attacked two men and hit them in the head with a bottle, through August, when he acted as his own attorney and pleaded no contest to felony assault.
By that point he had been arrested three times for incidents ranging from trying to break into an occupied home in Santa Monica, Calif., to resisting arrest. He had been sent to treatment programs that specialized in drug and alcohol addiction as well as mental illness.

Nikki Reed and Jenna Dewan are shocked by Johnny Lewis’ death.
The former boyfriend of Katy Perry is believed to have killed himself on Wednesday by leaping off his home after beating his 81-year-old landlady to death and the actresses, who both knew him, have spoken out about their sadness.
Nikki told E! News – “It’s horrible and shocking news. He was the nicest guy.”
“I never thought anything but great things about him. I have nothing to say except that he was a really nice guy. It’s just crazy.”
Jenna added – “It’s so sad. It’s a sad example of what happens if you lose your way in this town.”