Overview
- Los Angeles County Medical Examiner records list the date of death as December 19, 2025, and the cause as hanging, with the actor found at home in a shed.
- Police conducted a death investigation and do not suspect foul play, according to reporting on the case.
- Ransone is survived by his wife, Jamie McPhee, and their two children, and McPhee shared a public tribute along with links to a NAMI fundraiser and a family GoFundMe.
- Directors and co-stars including Spike Lee, Sean Baker, Wendell Pierce, Blumhouse, Scott Derrickson and others posted remembrances of his work and character.
- He was best known for The Wire’s Ziggy Sobotka and roles in Generation Kill, It: Chapter Two, Sinister and The Black Phone, and had spoken publicly about childhood abuse allegations and past addiction and sobriety.