{"id":2346105,"date":"2026-03-26T09:42:45","date_gmt":"2026-03-26T09:42:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2346105"},"modified":"2026-03-26T09:42:45","modified_gmt":"2026-03-26T09:42:45","slug":"ncis-rocky-carroll-killed-off-more-shocking-tv-exits","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/ncis-rocky-carroll-killed-off-more-shocking-tv-exits\/","title":{"rendered":"NCIS’ Rocky Carroll Killed Off & More Shocking TV Exits"},"content":{"rendered":"

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This story contains spoilers from the March 24 episode of NCIS.<\/p>\n

NCIS<\/a> fans\u00a0would appreciate privacy at this difficult time.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Director Leon Vance (played by\u00a0Rocky Carroll<\/strong>) was killed off<\/a> during the long-running crime procedural’s 500th episode on March 24.<\/p>\n

In a shocking move, Carroll’s character\u2014who joined the CBS drama during season five in 2008\u2014was murdered in a shooting with a corrupt agent before being welcomed to heaven by a young Chief Medical Examiner Donald “Ducky” Mallard (Adam Campbell<\/strong>).<\/p>\n

And while fans may have been caught off guard by Vance’s death, Carroll was proud that his on-screen alter-ego’s emotional goodbye remained a surprise until the milestone episode aired.<\/p>\n

“My biggest concern has been, because of the advent of social media, being able to keep a secret like this,” the 62-year-old\u00a0told\u00a0Variety<\/a> in an interview published March 24, “when sometimes leaks come from the most unsuspecting sources. So, the fact that this hasn\u2019t been blasted over the internet so far, or that the majority of people outside of CBS and a small circle of people still don\u2019t know about it, is pretty cool.”<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

\u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n

\u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source www.eonline.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

This story contains spoilers from the March 24 episode of NCIS. NCIS fans\u00a0would appreciate privacy at this difficult time.\u00a0 Director Leon Vance (played by\u00a0Rocky Carroll) was killed off during the long-running crime procedural’s 500th episode on March 24. In a shocking move, Carroll’s character\u2014who joined the CBS drama during season five in 2008\u2014was murdered in […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2346106,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[25173],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2346105","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-artists"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/NCIS-Rocky-Carroll-Killed-Off-More-Shocking-TV-Exits.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2346105","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2346105"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2346105\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2346107,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2346105\/revisions\/2346107"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2346106"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2346105"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2346105"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2346105"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}