Joshua Allen, the winner of the 2008 season of “So You Think You Can Dance,” has died. He was 36.

Allen was reportedly struck by a train on Sept. 30. He was transported to a nearby hospital, where he died, a family member told TMZ.

Allen’s dance community friend, Emmanuel Hurd, told TMZ  that he was stunned by the news of Allen’s death. Hurd remembered the dancer as “a very honest, real person” who “didn’t always do things the way that everybody thought he should, but that’s why he was a winner.”

On July 21, Allen posted a tribute to late star Malcolm-Jamal Warner after his unexpected drowning death during a vacation in Costa Rica. Allen shared a photo of Warner and himself with the words, “Fly high King.” It would also be Allen’s last post on social media. 

According to the New York Post, Allen was only 18 when he won Season 4 of the Fox reality show. In an eerie twist of fate, the runner-up that season was Stephen “tWitch” Boss, who would go on to become the in-house DJ on “The Ellen DeGeneres Show.” Boss died of suicide at age 40 in December 2022.

After Allen won his season on “SYTYCD,” he would tell Entertainment Weekly that he and Boss “were really happy for each other” regarding the final results.

“We were two of the closest people there,” Allen added. The two remained friends after the show.

Leading up to Season 4, Allen decided that it would be in his best interest to learn other forms of dance outside of hip-hop. 

“I took a few modern dance classes, ballet classes, because I felt that to be a better dancer I would have to take different classes, and, you know, expand my horizons in the art of dance,” Allen explained. “I didn’t want to audition for the show, not knowing anything. Dallas was [early in the auditions], and after I made it to Vegas — there were months before we actually went — I took as many classes as I could.”

“I really wasn’t that technically trained,” Allen continued. “I would just try to take classes in the summer, and when it was school time, I would take class, run track, play football. I would always just train in the summer. So it was never hard training.”

The Post notes that after the show, Allen would go on to land roles in movies like “Step Up 3D” and “Footloose.” He also appeared in an episode of “American Horror Story” in 2011.

“In 2016, Allen was charged with domestic violence in Los Angeles after being arrested for an incident involving his ex-girlfriend. After pleading no contest to the charges, Allen was sentenced to a year in county jail. He also received five years of formal probation and one year of domestic violence counseling,” the Post reports.

Allen’s relative asked for “privacy and prayers.”