Seattle,WA : Former Garfield High student Leah LaBelle dies in LA crash with ex-NBA player on January, Wednesday 31st 2018
R&B singer Leah LaBelle Vladowski, an alumna of Seattle’s Garfield High School, was killed in a single-vehicle rollover crash in Los Angeles early Wednesday with her husband, former NBA forward Rasual Butler.
The Range Rover crashed around 2:30 a.m. in the Studio City area and left a swath of damage along a major thoroughfare.
Los Angeles police said in a statement that Butler was speeding before his vehicle jumped a curb, hit three parking meters and a concrete wall and then flipped over twice. The vehicle came to rest inside a shopping mall parking lot.
Butler, 38, and Vladowski, 31, were pronounced dead at the scene, said Ed Winter, assistant chief investigator with the Los Angeles County coroner’s office. Autopsies were pending.
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She had earned a measure of celebrity as an R&B singer. While a student at the Seattle high school in 2004, she competed in the third Season of “American Idol” and placed 12th.
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Former Garfield High student Leah LaBelle dies in LA crash with ex-NBA player