Rhythm and blues singer-songwriter Angie Stone was killed in a car accident Saturday, hours before she was scheduled to perform at the CIAA basketball tournament in Baltimore, league officials confirmed to The Baltimore Sun.
Stone was reportedly killed in Montgomery, Alabama, on Saturday morning. After performing in Mobile, Alabama, on Friday, Stone was traveling to Atlanta in a van when the vehicle “flipped over and was subsequently hit by a big rig,” music producer Walter Millsap III told The Associated Press in an email. She was 63.
Everyone else in the cargo van survived except Stone, he said. She was traveling with nine others, her longtime publicist Yvonne Forbes told CNN.
Stone was scheduled to perform at halftime of the 4 p.m. men’s championship game at downtown CFG Bank Arena. During the earlier women’s championship game, Stone’s death was announced over the public address system and CIAA Chaplain Pastor Jerome Barber called for a moment of silence and lifted her name in prayer.
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