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Comedian Fuquan Johnson one of three dead from suspected overdose

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Stand-up comedian Fuquan Johnson was among three people who died of a suspected overdose at a Los Angeles party, authoritie­s said Monday.

Three people were declared dead at the scene in the Venice neighborho­od early Saturday morning and a fourth was taken to a hospital in critical condition, LAPD Officer Mike Lopez said.

The dead were Johnson, 43, of Los Angeles; Enrico Colangeli, 48, of Medford, Mass.; and Natalie Williamson, 33, of Los Angeles, the LA County coroner’s office said.

A preliminar­y investigat­ion found that the three died from an overdose, Lopez said. The coroner will determine and release the official cause of death after autopsies are performed.

Authoritie­s would not identify the person hospitaliz­ed.

Johnson had been a popular regular for years at Southern California comedy clubs, and wrote for the online show “Comedy Parlour Live: Quarantine Edition.”

Fellow comedians were paying tribute to him on social media as word spread of his death.

“Your energy would light up a room,” Damien Dante Wayans said on Instagram. “Everybody loved Fu!”

Several media outlets reported that Colangeli was also a stand-up comic.

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