Victims of Arizona plane crash on golf course named

Six people in their 20s who were killed in the fiery crash of a small plane on a golf course in a Phoenix suburb shortly after it took off from an airport were identified Wednesday.

Scottsdale police said the victims were Erik Valente, 26; James Louis Pedroza, 28; Mariah Sunshine Coogan, 23; Anand Anil Patel, 28; Helena Lagos, 22; and Iris Carolina Rodriguez Garcia, 23.

Pedroza and Lagos were from Las Vegas, but some hometowns weren’t available. Police said all their families have been notified.

The Arizona Republic reported that the plane was headed to Las Vegas. in the head during a standoff with police last month died two days later, according to the Clark County coroner’s office.

Las Vegas police said 20-yearold Alisha Rucker shot and killed an acquaintance, 27-year-old Darin King, during a March 26 argument outside an eastern valley home on the 100 block of Sacramento Drive, near Charleston and Lamb boulevards.

Rucker later shot herself as Nevada Highway Patrol troopers surrounded her vehicle, and she was hospitalized in critical condition. She was booked in absentia on charges related to King’s killing.

She died at University Medical Center on March 28, the coroner’s office said.