The previous drummer of rock band The Satan Wears Prada lately misplaced his life in a tragic aircraft crash – moments after being pictured within the cockpit.
RadarOnline.com reported that Daniel Williams, plus expertise agent Dave Shapiro, handed away in a fireball crash in a San Diego neighborhood within the morning of Thursday, Could twenty second.
The musician had survived a near-death expertise six years again when he was caught within the crosshairs of a mass taking pictures in Dayton, Ohio, during which 9 individuals had been killed inside a bar.
The shooter, Connor Betts, was shot useless by regulation enforcement officers responding to the scene.
Following the assault, Williams disclosed he had a fortunate escape from the gunman.
His non-public Cessna aircraft crashed round 4am Pacific after Williams, who stepped away from music eight years in the past, shared an image of himself on the aircraft’s controls.
A caption posted alongside the image on Instagram learn: “Right here we gooooo.”
Shortly earlier than the flight took off, he additionally dropped an image tagging Shapiro, 42, who owned the aircraft and used to work with the Christian metallic band Williams drummed in for years.
Williams, 39, posted one other image of the aircraft controls and wrote: “Hey. Hey… you… take a look at me … I’m the (co)pilot now.”
The Satan Wears Prada confirmed the passing by posting a montage of images of each Williams and Shapiro on their Instagram late this afternoon.
They wrote: “No phrases. We owe you all the things. Love you perpetually.”
As per his X account, Williams lately introduced that he had accepted a job with Apple on Could 14.
He wrote: “I’m very excited to share that I’ve accepted a software program engineering function at Apple.
“It’s been actually robust to say goodbye to my associates and colleagues of practically eight years at GoPro, however it’s time for my subsequent chapter. It’s time to assist construct the long run.”
Williams was seen boarding a Cessna 550 at Teterboro Airport in New Jersey late Wednesday evening.