Santa Barbara 9/6/19 – In a press conference held earlier today, Sheriff Bill Brown provided an update on the efforts to identify the victims of the Conception Incident.
The Sheriff’s Office has been successful in locating the next of kin of all 34 passengers who died in the incident. While the search efforts are ongoing, only 33 of victims have been recovered. At the 10:00 AM press conference, the Sheriff released the names of 9 victims who had been positively identified, and whose next of kin had been notified. The Coroner’s Office, with the assistance of rapid DNA technology, has now been able to positively identify 23 of the 33 victims recovered. 22 of the 23 families have now been notified formally by Sheriff’s Investigators. The Sheriff’s Office will not be releasing the passenger manifest in whole. As next of kin is notified of positive identification, the Sheriff’s Office will release those names.
At the 10:00 AM press conference, the Sheriff announced that the families of the following victims had been notified:
Raymond “Scott” Chan 59 M Los Altos, CA
Justin Carroll Dignam 58 M Anaheim, CA
Daniel Garcia 46 M Berkeley, CA
Marybeth Guiney 51 F Santa Monica, CA
Yulia Krashennaya 40 F Berkeley, CA
Alexandra Kurtz 26 F Santa Barbara, CA
Caroline McLaughlin 35 F Oakland, CA
Ted Strom 62 M Germantown, TN
Wei Tan 26 F Goleta, CA
Since the 10:00 AM press conference, these additional positive identifications and notifications have been made:
Kendra Chan 26 F Oxnard, CA
Angela Rose Quitasol 28 F Stockton, CA
Evan Michel Quitasol 37 F Stockton, CA
Nicole Storm Quitasol 31 F Imperial Beach, CA
Michael Quitasol 62 M Stockton, CA
Carol Diana Adamic 60 F Santa Cruz, CA
Andrew Fritz 40 M Sacramento, CA
Charles McIlvain 44 M Santa Monica, CA
Steven Salika 55 M Santa Cruz, CA
Tia Salika-Adamic 17 F Santa Cruz, CA
Neal Gustav Baltz 42 M Pheonix, AZ
Patricia Ann Beitzinger 48 F Chandler, AZ
Vaidehi Campbell 41 F Felton, CA