(Reuters) A graffiti artist who went by the nickname “Demz” died after being hit by a police car during a chase amid the height of Miami’s annual Art Week, according to his mother.
“He died doing what he loved,” Nannette Gutierrez wrote on Instagram alongside pictures of her son’s name spray-painted in bright blue bubble letters.
Delbert Rodriguez Gutierrez, 21, who died late Tuesday, had been hit by the police car on Friday night after officers spotted him spray-painting the side of a building in Wynwood, a hip Miami neighborhood popular with street artists, police said.
