Ryan Shepard, who worked with Eminem in the early 2000s, died at the end of January in a devastating tragedy.
The 40-year-old was hit by a truck while crossing the street in Washington, his brother Kylie told TMZ, and was rushed to hospital, but sadly they were unable to save him.
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Kyle explained that Ryan worked as Eminem’s stunt double and his photo double and stand-in – and even appeared at the MTV Movie Awards as Eminem’s superhero character Rap Boy.
He appeared on the stage again for his 2002 Anger Management Tour and also appeared in D12’s Purple Hills music video as Eminem’s double once more.
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Ryan’s brother Kyle said that he was “incredibly intelligent”, and worked at Disney as a ride mechanical engineer before moving to work on Elon Musk’s SpaceX.
Through LinkedIn, Ryan also revealed that he worked freelance as Lead Animatronics Engineer Lead Animatronics Engineer with California-based Garner Holt Productions and was also the CEO of a company titled RS Robotics.
On his profile he explained that he was a “creative engineer” and shared his skills as he added he was “well versed in all Adobe Creative suite and most CAD and programming languages.”
His final comment on his bio was: “I thrive on doing the impossible as well as blank page design.”
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He confirmed that Ryan has left behind two children, one aged 11 and a second aged 7.
Eminem’s brother Kyle has since made a group to remember his brother Ryan, with friends and family sharing their fond memories and tributes to him.
Kyle told the nearest and dearest that there would be a celebration of life for him as he wrote: “We will come together to share our fondest memories of Ryan.
“Remembering a wonderful father, son, brother, uncle, nephew and friend who is greatly missed.”
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