R.I.P.
Philadelphia, PA – Vanessa Watson, known professionally as Vanessa Banks, was murdered in what law enforcement officials declared a murder-suicide.
Watson, 26, was a up & coming model who's been featured on several episodes of BBTV and BBTV Radio, walked for runaways, posed for magazines, and product promotions around the country.
Before her death, she was living in a house with her three children, her sister, her grandmother, and her 31-year-old boyfriend, Louis McCrae. On Tuesday morning she drove McCrae to the train station. As they sat in her SUV McCrae shot Watson and then turned the gun on himself.
Relatives say there were no signs of trouble.
“We didn’t expect nothing like that. She took him and embraced [him], like she embraced everybody,” Vanessa’s aunt Sharon Watson said. – ABC Philadelphia
Vanessa had a following on twitter and facebook, and adopted the nickname “Ms. Banks DoDat”.
