{"id":26658,"date":"2025-12-24T23:15:19","date_gmt":"2025-12-24T23:15:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newsinbr.com\/?p=26658"},"modified":"2025-12-24T23:15:19","modified_gmt":"2025-12-24T23:15:19","slug":"broadway-actress-25-who-worked-on-lion-king-stabbed-to-death-in-new-jersey-home-as-boyfriend-is-charged-with-first-degree-murder","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsinbr.com\/?p=26658","title":{"rendered":"Broadway actress, 25, who worked on Lion King &#8216;stabbed to death&#8217; in New Jersey home as boyfriend is &#8216;charged with first-degree murder&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Former Broadway child star Imani Dia Smith has died at age 25 after being fatally stabbed, according to a report from TMZ. Smith, who played Young Nala in Disney\u2019s The Lion King, was found Sunday at a home in Edison, New Jersey, and was pronounced dead at a local hospital despite life-saving efforts.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Authorities say her boyfriend, Jordan D. Jackson-Small, has been arrested and charged in connection with her death, including first-degree murder. Smith leaves behind a three-year-old son, and a GoFundMe has been created to support her family as tributes pour in remembering her talent, warmth, and promising future.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former Broadway child star Imani Dia Smith has died at age 25 after being fatally stabbed, according to a report from TMZ. Smith, who played Young Nala&#8230; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":26659,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-26658","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"views":269,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsinbr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26658","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsinbr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsinbr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsinbr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsinbr.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=26658"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/newsinbr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26658\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26660,"href":"https:\/\/newsinbr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26658\/revisions\/26660"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsinbr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/26659"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsinbr.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=26658"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsinbr.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=26658"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsinbr.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=26658"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}