PHOENIX — A mainstay from the Twin Cities music scene is among those killed after a wrong-way crash west of Phoenix early Wednesday.
A benefit event involving the Twin Cities music community and Trevor Engelbrektson's family and friends celebrated his life. The Facebook event states the benefit is to raise funds for his wife and children.
“He’d be the dude who’d work a triple sound shift during the day and then get home so he could sleep for an hour and the be up with the kids,” his colleague Aaron Baum said.
Trevor Engelbrektson was tour manager for the British Duo 'Her's.' The record label "Heist or Hit" posted on their Facebook page that band members Stephen Fitzpatrick and Audun Laading died in the March 27 wrong-way fatal crash, along with Engelbrektson.
(Trevor Engelbrektson in photo below, screen right)
According to the posting, Engelbrektson and the duo were headed to a show in Santa Ana, California at the time of the crash. A report by the BBC stated the band had performed in Phoenix that night.
"The world was at their feet. Everyone here at the label is overwhelmed and distraught," representatives from the label said in the post. "We have lost our friends and the world has been denied their talent."
Posts to Twitter and other social media sites pay tribute to Engelbrektson as a musician, sound engineer and tour manager, but more as a dedicated husband, father to two young boys and friend to many in the Twin Cities music community.
Authorities responded to reports of a wrong-way driver on I-10 near Centennial, Arizona Wednesday and said a Nissan pickup collided head-on with a Ford 15-passenger van in the westbound lane near milepost 67.8.
Both vehicles collided and came to rest in the lane and were engulfed in flames, officials said. Four people were killed in the crash, authorities said.
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