The Satan Wears Prada’s co-founding member, Daniel Williams, and different music legend, Dave Shapiro, have died in a tragic aircraft crash.
Metalcore star Daniel Williams was among the many fatalities within the tragic aircraft crash
The Cessna 550 plane clipped an influence line earlier than smashing into the Tierrasanta neighbourhood in San Diego on Thursday (22.05.25).
Some time earlier than the incident, drummer Williams, who was 39, had eerily posted an image from contained in the cockpit on Instagram and captioned the submit: “Hey. Hey … you … take a look at me … I’m the (co)pilot now.”
Shapiro, 42, was the founding father of the Sound Expertise Group and likewise a pilot and proprietor of Velocity Aviation.
A spokesperson for Sound Expertise Group confirmed: “We’re devastated by the lack of our co-founder, colleagues and pals.
“Our hearts exit to their households and to everybody impacted by as we speak’s tragedy. Thanks a lot for respecting their privateness at the moment.”
The crash reportedly left one house destroyed and eight folks injured on the bottom.
The Nationwide Transportation Security Board is at present investigating the reason for the accident.
Metalcore band The Satan Wears Prada – which Daniel shaped in 2005 – reacted to the devastating lack of their former bandmate: “No phrases. We owe you all the pieces. Love you perpetually.”
Drummer Luke Holland shared: “I simply FaceTimed Daniel, what a devastating loss. RIP Daniel Williams. We did a bunch of excursions collectively and once I was the tremendous ‘younger man’ on the highway, he all the time handled me very well.”
Tributes have additionally flooded in for Shapiro – whose purchasers have included Sum 41, Pierce the Veil, I Prevail, Parkway Drive, and lots of extra – together with from boy band Hanson.
The ‘MMMBop’ hitmakers wrote: “Dave was fearless in life, and tireless in his work, and the type of buddy you’d need in your pace dial. Dave appeared to all the time be engaged on a brand new endeavour, or to be occurring a brand new journey, as a result of he was all the time exited for a brand new problem. We’re grateful for the 15 years we knew him.”
After leaving The Satan Wears Prada in 2016, Daniel went on to work as a software program engineer and had not too long ago began a brand new position at Apple.
