SURFSIDE, Fla. – Live Nation musician Theresa Velasquez has been known as a victim of the collapse of a 12-story condo in Florida that killed at least 97 people, the government announced Saturday.
The Miami-Dade Police Department said in a news release that Velasquez, 36, showed death in the June 24 collapse at the Champlain Towers South condo. His body was discovered on July 8.
It becomes the known death in the collapse, police said.
Velasquez, a Los Angeles-based executive for the occasion’s promotion company, had traveled to Miami with his parents at the Surfside condo, who also died in the collapse.
“Theresa was a passionate leader at Live Nation, who laid out all the projects she was a part of, while removing barriers for women and the LGBTQIA community,” the company said in a statement. “We will not forget and honor having an effect on what she has had, and we will miss her very much. “
In June 2020, Velasquez was included on Billboard’s pride list of LGBTQ leaders shaping the music industry.
A day after the collapse, Live Nation Entertainment President and CEO Michael Rapino tweeted, “Keep Theresa Velasquez in our thoughts, one of the members of LiveNation and a dear friend, daughter, sister and colleague. miracles tonight. “
The bodies of Velasquez’s parents, Julio Velasquez, 66, and Angela Velasquez, 60, were discovered and known earlier. Angela owned a small Fiorelli menswear store.
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The recovery effort at the condo site is slowly running out, with some other frame still buried in the rubble. The paintings are now moving toward finding out what caused the condo to fall into the sea.
An opinion on also thinks about what to do with the site of the structure. Suggestions included a full sale of the property, an acquisition through the government for the structure of a monument, or a combination of both.
Contributed: Kim Willis, USA TODAY