Rory Sykes, 32, asked his mother to leave him and save herself.
Rory Callum Sykes, a former child star popular for the 1998 British TV show Kiddy Kapers, tragically died after the blaze scorched through his family’s property in Malibu. The 32-year-old was blind and had cerebral palsy. Despite his mother trying to save him, he passed away amid the most destructive wildfires in Los Angeles in recent times.
The news of his demise was confirmed by his mother Shelley Sykes. “It is with great sadness that I have to announce the death of my beautiful son @Rorysykes to the Malibu fires yesterday. I’m totally heart broken,” she wrote on X. According to reports, the actor died of carbon monoxide poisoning after his mother failed to evacuate him from the property as he was unable to walk.