Shapiro was a strong advocate for independent musicians and a co-founder of the National Independent Talent Organization.

At least two people were killed and eight others injured on Thursday when a small plane crashed in a San Diego neighborhood where military families lived, damaging houses and vehicles.

“We have jet fuel all over the place,” Dan Eddy, San Diego’s assistant fire chief, said at an early morning news conference. He described the neighborhood as a “gigantic debris field.”