Former Nickelodeon star Kinna under the forestHis daughter’s father is said to be asking himself, and others, a painful question in the wake of his daughter’s death.
“So this time (my partner) Aunt Ynvme Taylor and I was in the Catskills and we saw this fox along the way. I could tell he had been hit,” Anthony UnderwoodKianna’s father wrote in a since-deleted Facebook post shared on Saturday, January 17. seconds people.
“It was a dangerous curvy road and I contemplated moving our car to the middle of the road so it wouldn’t get hit again,” he continued in the post. “But before I could do anything, someone came around the corner and didn’t slow down when I started flashing my high beams. So the driver hit the fox, I remember the horror I felt when I saw it. Another driver stopped and picked up the fox which was still alive and put it on the side of the road.”
She continued: “All I can think about is if someone showed my baby the same compassion as someone ran her over like it was murder. Someone tried to comfort my baby as she lay dying alone in the street, or kept their phones.”
Former Nickelodeon star Kianna Underwood has died after a hit-and-run. He was 33 years old. We can confirm it for you. that Underwood was identified as the victim of a hit-and-run accident in Brooklyn in the Brownsville neighborhood on Friday, January 16. The NYPD confirmed that a female victim, later identified as Underwood, was (…)
Kianna was identified as the victim of a hit-and-run in Brooklyn on Friday, January 16. Us Weekly previously confirmed. The 33-year-old man was pronounced dead at the scene.
“On Friday, January 16, 2026, at approximately 06:43 a.m., police responded to a 911 call of a hit-and-run pedestrian at Pitkin Avenue and Mother Gaston Boulevard, within the boundaries of the 73rd Precinct,” an NYP spokesperson said. “Further investigation by the NYPD’s District Collision Investigation Team determined that a black 2021 Ford Explorer SUV, operated by an unidentified individual, was traveling westbound on Pitkin Avenue with a green traffic signal in its favor as it approached the intersection of Mother Gaston Boulevard.”
The spokesman continued: “He improperly crossed the double yellow line and traveled into the opposite direction in the eastbound lane to pass a vehicle beginning to turn right from westbound Pitkin Avenue to northbound Mother Gaston Boulevard and struck a 33-year-old female pedestrian attempting to cross Pitkin Avenue at the northeast corner into the marked crosswalk from the northeast corner to the crosswalk.”
According to authorities, while Kianna was “lying in the road” she was “subsequently struck by a black and gray sedan, operated by an unidentified individual.”
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“EMS responded and pronounced the pedestrian dead at the scene,” the spokesperson added. “Vehicle operations did not remain at the scene. No arrests have been made, and the investigation remains ongoing by the NYPD Highway District Collision Investigation Team.”
On Friday, Anthony confirmed her daughter’s untimely death via Facebook, sharing an article about the crash while asking for privacy.
“Please give me and my family time to process this,” she captioned the status update at the time. “Thank you.” The father also shared a link to a NY Post story about the crash.
Kianna was best known for starring All of this. He appeared in seven episodes of the Nickelodeon sketch comedy from 2004 to 2005. His co-stars included Saturday night live‘s Kenan Thompson, Amanda Bynes, Nick Cannon and more