An actor from “The Wire” has revealed that his house in Georgia was destroyed by a tornado Thursday — with his 18-year-old son in intensive care after being thrown 300 feet out of his room.
“This s–t ain’t no movie,” Tray Chaney, who played Malik “Poot” Carr on the famed HBO series, told fans in an Instagram video as he stood in front of the crumpled wreckage of his home in Locust Grove.
Chaney said he was knocked unconscious by the tornado that hit around 3 p.m. Thursday, leaving him “with my face in the mud and parts of my house on top of me.”
Tray Chaney’s son, Malachi Chaney, is in the ICU after a tornado tossed him 300 feet away from their family home. Instagram/traychaneyvision“I woke up in a panic … screaming my son’s name out,” he said of 18-year-old Malachi Chaney.
“My son was thrown 300 feet out of his room,” he said, detailing how neighbors helped him find the teen in “the woods behind my house.”
“I lost my house, I lost everything in it,” the actor said.
“Thank god I’m still living. I survived a tornado. And my son, he survived,” he said as he prepared to see Malachi in the ICU with several broken ribs and a fractured bone in his face.
“Malachi is in this hospital fighting and me and my wife have not and will not leave his side,” he wrote.
The actor says he experienced vomiting and now has a “big knot” on his head from the storm’s impact.
Chaney said he woke up after being unconscious and crawled out of rubble while screaming for his son. Instagram/traychaneyvisionThe Chaney family has since received an outpouring of support from friends and fans on social media.
The National Weather Service is investigating the tornado’s path, which reportedly struck just a half-mile from the track of another twister in April, WSBTV reported.
