Houston officials have released the identities of the four victims who died in a shocking helicopter crash on Sunday, which included a child on a ride with his parents.
Marie Alonson, Dylon and Julio ‘Caesar’ Lerma, and Samantha Grandbouche were the four aboard the Robinson R44 II helicopter when it collided with a radio tower in Houston, Texas .
According to interviews with family members conducted by ABC13, Cesar took his son, Dylon, and his son’s mom, Marie, on a helicopter tour operated by National Helicopter Solutions. The R44 II chopper crashed into a transmission tower in a horrific accident just before 8 p.m. The catastrophic incident occurred in the eastern part of the city near Engelke Street and N Ennis Street.
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All three family members, Alonson, Caesar, and little Dylon, suffered “multiple blunt force injuries and thermal burn injuries,” while Samantha Grandbouche, the pilot, succumbed to “multiple blunt force injuries,” as indicated by the case status reports from The Harris County Institute of Forensic Sciences.