I came across the obituary for Nelsan Ellis in the newspaper today. They primarily listed him as from "True Blood" and I only saw the first season of that. I wasn't going to pay much attention until I noticed that he was Shinwell in Elementary. I hadn't known the actor's name. I looked him up on imdb and apparently he was also in a few movies that I've seen. It's really weird that they killed the character this season and then he ended up dying. He was only 39! They said something about the heart.