San Diego, California – As an investigation into a deadly plane crash in San Diego, California continues to be investigated, we learn more about some victims, including three employees of a music agency.
On Friday, the Sound Talent Group group, which represented a major alternative team via Pop-Punk, Metal, and Hard Rock, said that the co-founder of the agency, Dave Shapiro, and the colleagues of Kendall Fortner and Emma Hook were killed in a crash on Thursday.
On the San Diego Medical Office website, Selena Marie Rose Kenyon, 36, was inserted as a victim. She was photographed and mother.
Two other people on the plane who were not identified dead.
Here is what we know about the staff of the sound talent group who were killed in the accident.
Dave Shapiro
Shapiro participated in the establishment of the Voice Talent Group in 2018 with Tim Burur and Matt Andersen.
The 42 -year -old has a pilot license and was listed as an owner of the plane that was crashed, according to the Federal Aviation Administration.
Shapiro was a strong advocate of independent musicians and a co -founder of the Independent National Talent Organization. It was included in the 2012 Billboard List of “30 Under 30” to recognize the rising stars in entertainment.
Shapiro grew up in New York State in the scene of “SSISTEDGE Hard-ST-Core”, a sub-culture that enhances the lack of use of drugs and alcohol as a reaction to the prevailing villain.
At high school, he started a group with his friends and signed with victory records when they graduated. They toured a few years, during which he communicated in the music industry that would help his invasion on the work side.
Shapiro said he became a drug addict immediately to fly after taking the first 22 -year -old flight. He seemed to love music and fly with equal eagerness, at one time the talent agency office opened in a barn in San Diego.
“The flight helps me” helps me focus and helps me not to pay attention to all nonsense in the world, and anything that happens outside the type of plane does not matter at those moments. “
Shapiro has a flying school called Velocity Aviation, Stical Label, Velocity Records.
Show trips in San Diego and Homer, Alaska, where he and his wife, Julia Bolk Shapiru, had a house, according to his websites online.
Shapiro married his wife in 2016 in the small town of Talketna, Alaska. They picked up their wedding licenses, went on a plane and flew into a ice river inside the Denali National Park, where they landed with crawling tied on the wheels of the plane.
“When I met Dave, we became immediately enslaved on the unconventional lifestyles that we perform and our continuous need for adventure,” she wrote in a blog post.
In 2019, I posted on Instagram that he got
“Although I have a profession and I am not planning to change, I always want to know more and to be a better pilot,” he wrote. He was also addicted to adrenaline, enjoying the base jumping.
Kendall Fortner
Fortner’s love for music began at an early age when her father started taking her to concerts.
According to the Sound Talent Group group, the 24-year-old loved all kinds, from Doo-Wop to Rock Classic.
She taught herself to play multiple tools, including piano and guitar. She was born in Glenel and raised in Santa Clareta.
Fortner enrolled in West Ranch High School before graduating from San Diego State University in 2021 with a business certificate.
After training with the college of the college, Fortner joined the company immediately after graduation as a reservation leader.
“In the early adolescence years, Kendall showed an interest in working on the work side of music, and the function in Stg was an ideal occasion that offered its work ethics and its ability to plan tours and festivals throughout the country,” said Music Agency.
Fortner described it as “the life of the party” and a person who lit up any room that entered.
She survived her parents Gary, Christine, her brother Justin, his wife Hana, their son Theo, her brother Jordan and his wife Kylie.
Emma Lin Hook
Huke was born, grew up in Orange County and knew early that she wanted to work in the music industry.
She was a thirsty dancer and she was part of the national dance team at Santa Margareta Secondary School.
After graduating from the University of Oregon in 2022 with a certificate in the press, HUKE completed many internal training in the music industry before joining the sound talent group in 2024 as a coworker.
“There was nothing that Emma loved more than live music,” the agency said. “I worked hard to save money so that you can travel to concerts and festivals. While she loved all kinds of music, her favorite artists to watch Live are Taylor Swift and 1975.”
Huke also helped organize, plan and strengthen some of the largest agency’s rounds. Customer and friends described Huke as the “power of nature” that brought joy and light to everyone in its presence.
Hook survived by her parents, Tim and Alison, and her younger brother, Ellis.
The Associated Press contributed to this report.
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