Lamont Bentley

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Lamont Bentley

Birth name	Artimus Lamont Bentley
Born	October 25, 1973 Milwaukee, Wisconsin, United States
Died	January 18, 2005 (age 31) Los Angeles, California
Notable roles	Rashad in South Central (TV series) Crazy K in Tales from the Hood Hakeem Campbell in Moesha

Artimus Lamont Bentley (October 25, 1973 – January 18, 2005) was an American television and film actor.

Born in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, he moved to Los Angeles with his mother Loyce, who wished to ignite her career as a singer. He is best known for his role as Hakeem Campbell on Moesha, and Crazy K in Tales from the Hood.

Bentley was befriended by author and hotel magnate Christopher Spencer, who was his personal manager during his career on Moesha.

He worked on the film Buffalo Soldiers with Danny Glover. He was involved in a lawsuit with a security guard at Sunset/Gower Studios in Hollywood in which the guard accused Bentley and his friends of beating him.

On January 18, 2005, he was killed in a single-car accident in southern California's Ventura County. He was driving on Highway 118 near Simi Valley; 30 miles northwest of Los Angeles, when his vehicle went over an embankment, ejecting him (the sole occupant) from the vehicle and into traffic where five cars struck him.^[1] ^[2] He was 31 and the father of two young daughters.