“America’s Got Talent” dancer Emily Gold has died by suicide at the age of 17 just weeks after she and her high school team appeared on the competition show.
California Highway Patrol Public Information Officer Rodrigo Jimenez told Page Six on Monday that Gold — a senior and the varsity dance captain at Los Osos High School in Rancho Cucamonga, Calif. — is believed to have “leaped off the over-crossing and landed on the freeway in the carpool lane” on Friday night.
Jimenez said that just before midnight, CHP officers “responded to a call of a pedestrian down in lanes on eastbound SR-210, east of Haven Avenue.”
Gold “was stuck by at least one vehicle” in the carpool lane, Jimenez explained, adding that she “succumbed to her injuries and was pronounced deceased at the scene.”
