Five people are dead after a single-engine plane crashed in a South Carolina coastal resort town.
Officials said the fiery wreck near a golf course in North Myrtle Beach on July 1 killed all four passengers and the pilot, The Myrtle Beach Sun News reported. The Monday update raised the death toll from initial reports that one person had passed.
Tamara Willard, the chief deputy coroner for Horry County, told the newspaper that one person died shortly after being taken to a regional hospital while the others died at the crash.
The identities of the victims were shared Wednesday evening after officials first informed their families. The four passengers – Tanique Cheu, 32, and her son, Sean Gardner, 7, as well as Suzette Coleman-Edwards, 42, and her daughter, Odaycia Edwards, 17 – all hailed from East Orange, New Jersey, and had relatives living in Jamaica. The pilot was Dr. Joseph Farnese, 66, of Caldwell, New Jersey.
The cause of the plane`s downfall remains unclear.
Photo: Emergency personnel responded to the crash site in North Myrtle Beach. (Terri Richardson/The Sun News via AP)
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