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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
National
Madeline Sherratt

Joshua ‘Nassaru’ Ward, Voraath drummer, dead at 37 following New Year’s Eve drunk driving tragedy

Joshua Nassaru Ward (pictured left) was killed in a tragic New Year’s Eve crash along with three others in South Carolina – Nicholas Shane Meeks, 32, (pictured right) is facing DUI charges in relation to the crash - (Facebook/Greenville County Detention Center)

Heavy metal drummer and vocalist Joshua "Nassaru" Ward – famous for his work in the band “Voraath” – was killed after being struck in a drunk driving tragedy on New Year’s Eve in South Carolina.

Ward, 37, a father-of-one, and three others died in the two-vehicle collision just after 9 p.m. Tuesday on Cooley Bridge Road, just south of the city of Greenville, according to multiple law enforcement agencies.

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