Emily Gold
Emily Gold, 17, a dancer from Los Osos High School fell during a dance routine on Americas Got Talent.
Gold died by suicide on Friday, Sept. 13 around 11:52 pm in San Bernardino, the Coroner’s Office.
California Highway Patrol Public Information Officer Rodrigo Jimenez tells in a statement, “Officers from the California Highway Patrol Rancho Cucamonga area responded to a pedestrian down in lanes.”
When officers arrived, they located a 17-year-old female in the carpool lane on eastbound 210 struck by at least one other vehicle, Jimenez said. The woman was found to be dead at the scene.
Witnesses who have more information or anyone who witnessed the incident were requested to immediately contact their investigating Officer S. Gonzalez.
Police Department, as well as America’s Got Talent and Los Osos High School representatives for comment.
Only days prior, the Los Osos High School dance team took America’s Got Talent by storm as well when they appeared on TV with their mouth-dropping Southern California teenager.
The group made it past the audition process and sang their way into the quarterfinals in August, before being voted off the show.
That mark of the high energy performance by the team in spite of them being eliminated, was rewarded by judge Simon Cowell who gave them a standing ovation.
Cowell sounded equally enthused — “It was sheer brilliance,” he said at the time.
“WHAT I LOVED ABOUT THIS WAS, FIRST OF ALL THE ENERGY.
Everything a great school should be doing; I think I just saw it — talent and friendship. “
And Cowell went on to say, “It kind of reminded me the first time I saw the High School Musical movie and just thought every school should be like this.
Gold said about her time on stage, “When I’m performing, I’m truly considering all the corrections because we get notes up to five minutes before we go on. So really just to have those in mind so that we apply them on stage is the biggest thing for me.
When asked how she is handling being in high school that and also performing on AGT, she responded by saying with a smile, “it’s definitely tough to balance it all, but we made it happen.”
Our Los Osos Grizzly, Emily Gold, was a gift to us all on this earth and today we are heartbroken.