Cause of death of So You Think You Can Dance season 4 winner Joshua Allen he was officially exposed after being hit by a train.
TMZ confirmed on Friday, March 20, that Allen died from blunt force trauma. The Tarrant County Medical Examiner’s Office ruled her death a suicide.
The newspaper reported in October 2025 that Allen had died at the age of 36. Her family members are asking for “privacy and prayers” as she grieves.
“He didn’t always do things the way everyone thought he should, but that’s why he was successful,” Emmanuel Hurda friend of the late dancer, told the newspaper, noting that Allen was “a very honest, genuine person.”
A relative said later TMZ that Allen was struck and killed by a train. It is reported that he died in a hospital near his home in Texas one day ago.
According to the Fort Worth Star-Telegrampolice responded to the railroad tracks in late September 2025 near the intersection in south Fort Worth around 01:00 local time, where they found an unidentified man who had been hit by a train. It is reported that the victim was taken to a nearby medical center.
Allen was only 18 when he competed SYTYCD as a hip-hop dancer in 2008. She ended up taking home the title of America’s Favorite Dancer in second place. Stephen “tWitch” Managerwho died in 2022 at the age of 40.
“I took a few modern dance classes, ballet classes, because I felt that in order to become a better dancer I would have to take different classes, and, you know, broaden my knowledge of the art of dance,” Allen said. Entertainment Weekly following his season 4 win. “I didn’t want to do an interview for the program without knowing anything [early in the audition process]and after I got to Vegas — it was months before we actually went — I took as many classes as I could.”
Allen explained that although he was “not very qualified,” he would try to “learn over the summer.”
When So You Think You Can Dance premiered on FOX in 2005, a panel of dance professionals was tapped to find the best up-and-coming dancers. Nigel Lythgoe, who created the competition series alongside Simon Fuller, has served as one of the longest running judges since the first season 1. However, after setting up the music for testing and surprise […]
“During school, I would go to class, run, play football. “So it was never a hard training. … I knew what it was, I knew what to do, but I wasn’t trained in it.”
Following her time on the dance competition show, Allen was featured in the Step Up 3D in 2010 and 2011 To untie the feet remake while continuing to attend national dance conventions. He has also participated in various commercials and TV shows such as Community, It’s impossible again American Horror Story.
After his years SYTYCD win, Allen revealed in a 2013 YouTube interview no Macy Jenkins that he has been “communicating” with other dancers in the show.
“[We all] “We have a monthly dinner and we all get up together, and we just hang out if we’re just going out to dinner or to a club,” he said in the video. Sometimes we work together in big meetings, so we are separated but never separated. We always come back and meet. We always made promises when we left the show, like, ‘We’ll always keep in touch.’
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