October 3, 2024 - The most recent skydiving deaths in California occurred in August when instructor Devrey LaRiccia Chase, 28, and student Kayla Black, 28, both died in a tandem jump at Skydive Perris in Riverside County.

August 7, 2024 - The woman, identified by family as 28-year-old Kayla Kieko Black, was killed following the Aug. 2 skydiving accident alongside her instructor, 28-year-old Devrey LaRiccia. RELATED: California skydiving instructor, 28, dies after hitting 'dust ...

October 1, 2024 - A California skydiving instructor who fraudulently trained new instructors at the Lodi Parachute Center in San Joaquin County, including one who died while tandem jumping with an 18-year-old high school graduate in 2016, has been sentenced to ...

August 9, 2024 - The pair were rushed to the hospital, where they died from their injuries. LaRiccia died less than an hour after the accident and Black died Sunday, according to officials. Skydive Perris said it is cooperating with authorities and the Riverside County Sheriff’s Office said there was no evidence of foul play.

April 1, 2024 - Records obtained by SFGATE reveal a string of deadly skydiving accidents at the Lodi Parachute Center in Acampo, California.

October 2, 2024 - A Northern California man received a two-year federal prison sentence this week for fraud related to a skydiving accident that left two men dead when their parachute failed to open during a tandem jump in Lodi, authorities said.

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August 6, 2024 - A professional skydiving instructor died and her student was seriously injured in a tandem skydiving accident in Southern California’s Inland Empire. Devrey LaRiccia Chase, 28, and her student had deployed their parachute and were descending ...

October 5, 2024 - Turner, who filed a wrongful-death lawsuit against the Parachute Center, said in the interview that she wished that the authorities could have also gone after the facility’s founder, William Dause, who she said had largely escaped responsibility despite the many deaths at his skydiving outfit.

April 2, 2024 - 28 deaths at a California a skydiving center, but the jumps go on — Records obtained by SFGATE reveal a string of deadly accidents and lax regulation of the sport [Lodi Parachute Center in Acampo, Calif]

August 7, 2024 - Kayla Kieko Black, 28, was pronounced deceased at a Riverside County hospital on Sunday, her father Bill Black confirmed to KTLA. Black and her skydiving instructor, Devrey LaRiccia Chase, also 28, were caught in […]

August 8, 2024 - Devrey Lariccia Chase died in a skydiving accident at Perris Skydiving in Riverside County, California on Aug.

August 9, 2024 - Devrey LaRiccia, 28, of Menifee and Kayla Black, 28, of Orange County died Friday afternoon after going down at an accelerated rate in an open field used by Skydive Perris in the 2000 block of Goetz Road.

August 9, 2024 - According to Freddy Chase, LaRiccia's ... the tragedy happened when LaRiccia and her student made a tandem jump over the airport, planning on landing in an open field used by the company for landings....

April 1, 2024 - TIL that there's a skydiving center in California where 28 people have died since 1985. It's still open. ... TIL all the chutes opened properly in the worst skydiving accident in US history.

August 7, 2024 - However, I can’t imagine continuing to be an instructor in something where your coworkers eventually have fatal accidents! ... My brother also worked close enough to see the divers. The workers actually recorded a video of a marine falling to his death. https://www.latimes.com/archives/blogs/la-now/story/2013-02-27/marine-who-died-in-perris-skydiving-accident-identified

September 12, 2023 - Given the facility has seen fatal accidents since 1985 and Pooley is 46, he cannot be accountable for all of those accidents (or even 1). ... I mean, we didn't love Josh THAT much. He was the thirteenth most loved family member, at best. ... As a skydiver, this is what it’s like when a skydiver dies, yes.