The Honolulu Medical Examiner is releasing the names of seven of the 11 people killed when a skydiving plane crashed in Hawaii, one of which is a man from the Twin Cities.
The list of victims includes Nikolas Glebov, a 28-year-old from St. Paul, Minnesota, and a Colorado couple celebrating their first wedding anniversary were among those killed in the skydiving plane crash in Hawaii.
A GoFundMe has been set up to support Glebov's family.
Relatives told KCNC-TV that Ashley and Bryan Weikel were excited to go skydiving, but Weikel's mother, Kathy Reed-Gerk, begged him not to go.
Bryan's brother Kenneth Reed said he texted his brother multiple times after the scheduled jump time for an update but grew worried when he didn't hear back after 15 hours.
He said he went online to search for skydiving in Hawaii and immediately saw a headline about the crash and said he realized what happened.
On Facebook, Reed said his brother was "the absolute best person in the world" and that his wife also was, calling her his "identical soul mate."
Also among the dead is Joshua Drablos, a 27-year-old resident of Virginia who was stationed in Hawaii with the U.S. Navy and three Hawaii residents, Daniel Herndon, Michael Martin and Jordan Tehero.
The identities of the remaining four victims will be released once they have been confirmed.
There were 10 men and one woman among the victims.
The plane crashed Friday shortly after it took off from Dillingham Airfield on the northern side of Oahu Island.
The crash was the worst U.S. civil aviation accident since 2011.
