LA Music Director Theresa Velasquez is 95th death identified in Florida condo collapse

Another victim has been identified in the collapse of a 12-story condominium in Florida that has killed at least 97 people, authorities said on Saturday. the The Miami-Dade Police Department said in a press release that Theresa Velasquez, 36, was a confirmed death in the June 24 collapse of the Champlain Towers South condo.

Velasquez’s body was found on July 8. She becomes the 95th death identified in the collapse, police said.

Velasquez was an Los Angeles-based executive for the Live Nation event promotion company. She had traveled to Miami to visit her parents at the Surfside apartment, both of whom also died in the collapse.

“Theresa was a passionate leader at Live Nation, who elevated all the projects she was a part of, while breaking down barriers for women and the LGBTQIA + community,” the company said in a statement. “We will always remember and honor the impact she had, and she will be sorely missed.”

The bodies of Julio and Angela Velasquez were found and identified earlier.

A GoFundMe site for the family raised more than $ 52,000.

“If we do not need the financial support, we will either return this monetary support (if possible) or give it back to those who may need it as a result of this tragedy, or to the victims of similar tragedies,” said the Minister. site.

The recovery effort at the condo site is slowly running out of steam, with possibly another body still buried in the rubble. The work is now moving towards determining what caused the downfall of the beachfront condo.

“At this point in the recovery process, it has become increasingly difficult to identify the victims, and we rely heavily on the work of the medical examiner’s office and the scientific and technical process of identifying the human remains,” he said. Miami-Dade County said in a statement. Saturday outing. “This job gets more difficult over time, although our teams are working as hard and as fast as possible.”