Kevin Samuels: Famous YouTuber confirmed dead

Kevin Samuels, a popular YouTuber with about 1.4m subscribers, is dead.

His mother confirmed to NBC News.

His mother, Beverly Samuels-Burch, declined to release details about what happened. She said she learned of her son’s death from social media.

“That was a terrible thing for social media to put out. I didn’t even know. I hadn’t even been notified,” she said in a phone call on Friday. “All I’m doing is requesting that people pray for us.”

The Atlanta Police Department said officers were called to an apartment on East Paces Ferry Road NE on Thursday morning “regarding a person injured.” By the time police arrived, first responders were performing CPR on an unresponsive man later identified as Samuels.