An eighth individual has died after a medical jet crashed in Northeast Philly in January, because the longtime companion of the one man on the bottom that was killed throughout that incident has died after spending months in a medically induced coma.
On Sunday, April 27, 2025, Dominique Items-Burke, 34, of Philadelphia, succumbed to the accidents she suffered when a medical jet carrying six folks – together with a woman from Mexico who had obtained remedy for a life-threatening sickness – plummeted to the bottom in Northeast Philly on Jan. 31, 2025.
On the time the crash occurred, Items-Burke was in a car alongside Cottman Avenue together with her longtime companion, 37-year-old Steven Dreuitt of Philadelphia together with Dreuitt’s 9-year-old son, Ramesses Raziel Dreuitt Vazquez.
After the jet crashed, first responders discovered Dreuitt’s stays inside a car alongside the 2300 block of Cottman Avenue, together with Items-Burke, who had suffered burns over 70 p.c of her physique, officers stated on the time the incident occurred.
Items-Burke died at Jefferson Einstein Philadelphia Hospital, a spokesperson for the Medical Examiner’s Workplace instructed the Related Press.
Items-Burke’s family members instructed NBC10 that the household was driving to the Macy’s retailer on the Roosevelt Mall on Cottman Avenue, when a Learjet 55 — that had simply departed from the Northeast Philadelphia Airport lower than three miles away — plummeted to the bottom, inflicting an enormous explosion that engulfed all the pieces in its path.
The crash additionally killed all six folks on board the medical jet, together with Valentina Guzman Murillo, a woman who was returning to Mexico after receiving remedy for a life-threatening sickness at Shriners Kids’s Philadelphia.
Murillo’s mom, Lizeth Murillo Ozuna, Captain Alan Alejandro Montoya Perales, co-pilot Josue de Jesus Juarez Juarez, Dr. Raul Meza Arredondo, and paramedic Rodrigo Lopez Padilla, have been additionally on board.
The flight was touring to Missouri and would have continued to Tijuana, Mexico.
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