A skydiver was killed after he fell onto the roof of a Perris home Monday afternoon.
Tragic scene where a #skydiver lost their life after a primary parachute failed to deploy, crashing onto a rooftop of home near the #PerrisValleyAirport @ABC7 #Air7HD pic.twitter.com/CMoTIiDDIo
— J.T. Alpaugh (@ABC7JT) January 23, 2018
It happened a little before 3 pm on Caldera Street, according to a Cal Fire news release. Paramedics arrived and pronounced the unidentified skydiver dead at the scene.
Firefighters are removing the body of a skydiver who died when he crashed into the roof of a Perris home pic.twitter.com/g31kX5QQmo
— Rob McMillan (@abc7robmcmillan) January 23, 2018
“I was in complete shock,” Christina Blanco, who was inside the home when it happened, told ABC 7. “I was like, no, this can’t be happening. … And then it took so long for us to find out if he was OK or not, just waiting. My heart just dropped when they were like, no, he’s not OK.”
A neighbor captured photos after a skydiver landed on a home in Perris in a fatal fall https://t.co/eaMWhVC7ln pic.twitter.com/qU5sVukLoz
— KTLA (@KTLA) January 23, 2018
More than 20 people have died in skydiving-related incidents at the Perris facility since 2000, according to the Riverside Press-Enterprise.
