Horribly tragic news today, as Fox 5 reports that Hollywood special effects technician Joseph Livolsi, who had just completed work on the Dwayne Johnson-starring monster movie Rampage, was found dead inside his apartment in Atlanta over the weekend. Police say he was shot multiple times by an unknown murderer.
At this time, they have no suspects and no known motive.
Livolsi was in town to work on Michael Dougherty’s Godzilla: King of the Monsters, and a red flag was raised when he didn’t show up on set this past weekend.
“We started making phone calls, a lot of people got in the loop and no one could reach him,” said friend Eric Cook. “A couple of days went by and it was really at that point we had tried everything and we were running into dead ends, so it was a little alarming at that point.”
He added, “Real stand up guy… there’s nothing bad you can say about Joe, everybody loved him.”
Joe Livolsi was a special effects technician on over 40 high-profile projects since his career began in 2002, including Minority Report, the Pirates of the Carribean sequels, Spider-Man 3, The Avengers, Furious 7, Ant-Man and Captain America: Civil War.