According to local station WSB-TV, the father and three of his five children perished in an automobile accident with a tractor-trailer in Atlanta on Halloween night. It was 1941.
In an effort to memorialize her "beautiful, loving, talented" son, Ramsess' mother Akili spoke out following the tragic tragedy. She revealed that two of her granddaughters, Shazia, age three, who was ejected from the car and is still hospitalized due to minor injuries, survived.