Second cast or crew member of HBO's series Treme (2010) to die while
filming the series in New Orleans. The first, Bernard Johnson died of a heart attack a week before Mills' death from a brain aneurysm.
His New York Times obituary called Mills a "light-skinned black man whose racial identity was not always evident to those around him [who] wrote white characters and black characters with equal zeal.".
Former feature writer with The Washington Times and The Washington
Post.