A drummer who was a founding member of a popular American hard rock band has been killed the crash of a private plane.
Daniel Williams, the former drummer of the metalcore group The Devil Wears Prada, died in the crash in San Diego.
Also killed was top music industry agent David Shapiro, the New York Post reported.
The two were aboard a private jet along with four other passengers that had taken off from Teterboro Airport in New Jersey.
The plane crashed into a San Diego neighborhood that houses military families at around 3:45 p.m. on Thursday.
The National Transportation Safety Board said that the plane hit a power line in foggy weather. It then crashed into a home, setting it ablaze.
Nobody on the ground was killed or injured. Authorities have yet to release the names of the other four passengers.
“No words. We owe you everything. Love you forever,” Williams’ former bandmates wrote on social media alongside a photo of Williams.
Williams’ last social media post hauntingly showed him in the plane’s cockpit, the aircraft’s yoke between his legs. The photo was captioned, “Here we gooooo.”
An earlier photo of the plane’s controls and windshield had the caption: “Hey. Hey… you… look at me… I’m the (co)pilot now.”
Williams six years ago survived a mass shooting in his native state of Ohio.
The drummer was in Ned Peppers bar in Dayton when gunman Connor Betts killed nine and wounded 27 on Aug. 4, 2019.
Cops killed Betts in the midst of his murderous rampage.
“I was in Ned Peppers. I’m still not sure exactly what happened. People were piling on top of each other to get out. It’s all a blur. F–king awful,” Williams wrote at the time on X.
