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“We tragically lost a member of our ER family yesterday. Vanessa Marquez played a nurse when the show first aired,” La Salle, 56, tweeted Friday.
According to theL.A. Times, theHollywood Reporterandother news outlets, it was the same Marquez.
Last October, Marquez wrote aFacebookpost in which she accused La Salle ofsexual misconduct, including allegedly grabbing her genitals.
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Vanessa Marquez onERLa Salle did not respond to PEOPLE’s request to comment.
Marquez also alleged the other actors made “daily attacks on my Mexican heritage” and accusedERcostarGeorge Clooneyof contributing to her being “blacklisted.”
“Clooney helped blacklist me when I spoke up abt harassment on ER. ‘Women who don’t play the game lose career’ I did,” Marquez said,according toPage Six.
Marquez was reportedly shot following a welfare check at an apartment complex for someone “who was possibly suffering from a medical condition,” according to authorities.
Police claim they came across a woman who “became uncooperative.” She was then shot around 1:48 p.m. after she allegedly “armed herself” with a BB gun and pointed it at officers,” theSouth Pasadenanreported.
source: people.com
