The San Diego County Medical Examiner’s Office identified three of the six people who were believed to be on a plane that crashed into a residential street in San Diego early Thursday morning.
On Friday evening, the county named David Shapiro, 42, Emma L. Huke, 25, and Celina Marie Rose Kenyon, 36, saying they were “…in a Cessna aircraft which crashed into a residential community in San Diego.”
The county lists the place of death as the 10200 block of Sample Street and the time as 3:47 a.m. on Thursday morning.
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Debris covers the ground after a small plane crashed into a San Diego neighborhood, setting homes and cars on fire and forcing evacuations early Thursday, May 22, 2025. (AP Photo/William Liang) -
Authorities work the scene where a small plane crashed into a San Diego neighborhood, setting several homes on fire and forcing evacuations along several blocks early Thursday, May 22, 2025. (AP Photo/Gregory Bull) -
The damage after a small plane crashed into the Tierrasanta neighborhood of San Diego on Thursday, May 22, 2025. (KSWB) -
Authorities work the scene where a small plane crashed into a San Diego neighborhood, setting several homes on fire and forcing evacuations along several blocks early Thursday, May 22, 2025. (AP Photo/Gregory Bull) -
The damage after a small plane crashed into the Tierrasanta neighborhood of San Diego on Thursday, May 22, 2025. (KSWB) -
Authorities work the scene where a small plane crashed into a San Diego neighborhood, setting several homes on fire and forcing evacuations along several blocks early Thursday, May 22, 2025. (AP Photo/Gregory Bull) -
Authorities work the scene where a small plane crashed into a San Diego neighborhood, setting several homes on fire and forcing evacuations along several blocks early Thursday, May 22, 2025. (AP Photo/Gregory Bull) -
Authorities work the scene where a small plane crashed into a San Diego neighborhood, setting several homes on fire and forcing evacuations along several blocks early Thursday, May 22, 2025. (AP Photo/Gregory Bull) -
Authorities work the scene where a small plane crashed into a San Diego neighborhood, setting several homes on fire and forcing evacuations along several blocks early Thursday, May 22, 2025. (AP Photo/Gregory Bull) -
Vehicles are damaged as authorities work the scene where a small plane crashed into a San Diego neighborhood, setting several homes on fire and forcing evacuations along several blocks early Thursday, May 22, 2025. (AP Photo/Gregory Bull) -
Vehicles and houses are damaged after a small plane crashed into a San Diego neighborhood, setting several homes on fire and forcing evacuations along several blocks early Thursday, May 22, 2025. (AP Photo/Gregory Bull)
Federal officials have said in the time since the crash that six people were believed to be aboard the plane and that all are presumed dead.
Although the crash and ensuing fires damaged multiple homes and vehicles along a stretch of Sample Street, only several people on the ground received injuries, mostly from smoke inhalation and from exiting windows.
Since the crash, San Diego-based music talent agency Sound Talent Group identified Shapiro as a victim in the crash and said two other employees had also perished, but it did not provide their names. Shapiro was a co-founder of the agency.
Rock band The Devil Wears Prada said Daniel Williams, who was the group’s drummer for a decade starting in 2005, was also on the plane.
On Friday, Tandem Management Company, which works with musicians and lists The Devil Wears Prada among the groups it works with, posted on Facebook saying, “the music world lost some extraordinary individuals,” and named Shapiro, Huke and Williams, along with Kendall Fortner.
Operators of San Diego gym The Training Center and a fighter affiliated with it spoke with FOX 5/KUSI on Friday and identified the sixth victim as Dominic Damian, adding that they planned to host an open mat in his honor on Monday.
At a Friday news conference, federal officials released some early findings in the investigation, saying that some of the advanced aviation equipment that helps guide pilots to Montgomery Gibbs Executive Airport, where the plane was headed, was not working, including the runway approach light system.
