4 hours 51 minutes David Mills, an award-winning screenwriter, has helped Emmy drama "The Wire" and "ER", died at the age of 48, after he apparently suffered a ruptured aneurysm, HBO announced Wednesday. Directly related content Mills fell ill Tuesday night in New Orleans on the set of the upcoming HBO drama "Treme," which involved the show in a statement supplied by HBO. He lost consciousness and died in a hospital and doctors said it he seemed to be a brain aneurysm, said the statement. HBO is deeply by the sudden loss of our dear friend and colleague David Mills sad, "HBO said in a statement." It was a gracious and modest man, and we missed by those who knew and loved, and those who aware of his enormous talent, "said network. Mills wrote the Washington Post in early 1990, reports on the race and popular culture of the Style section. Later he wrote episodes of the TV police drama" NYPD Blue "and" Homicide: Life on the Street " and the hospital series "ER" during the 1990s. has Mills episodes written by the critically acclaimed series "The Wire" in 2006 and 2007, a show by writer and producer David Simon, a look at the Gritty drug trafficking in Baltimore, police, business was created newspaper and bureaucracy. "Treme," a show about New Orleans in the wake of Hurricane Katrina in 2005 is the latest project from Mills. The program, which he produces with Simon, will debut 11th April. Mills had a couple of times Emmy Award in 2000 for his work on TV mini-series "The Corner", a show by Simon, a former journalist, Mills worked on the student newspaper at the University of Maryland in the 1980s. Mills, in Washington, DC was born but has lived in Los Angeles in recent years, mourning brothers and sisters, Blanche Carroll, Gloria Johnson and Franklin Mills. (Reporting by Alex Dobuzinskis: Editing by Bob Tourtellotte)