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A man who saved a boy during the deadly medical jet crash in Northeast Philadelphia earlier this year will throw out the first pitch during Friday night’s Phillies game.
Pennsylvania State Rep. Jared Solomon (D-202nd) partnered with the Philadelphia Phillies as well as local car salesman Gary Barbera to organize a tailgate party and get 200 Phillies tickets for police, firefighters, neighbors and business owners who were impacted by the plane crash along with their families.
The tailgate party will begin on Friday, Aug. 29, at 4:30 p.m. at Rep. Solomon’s district office on 6434 Castor Avenue. Barbera and his charitable foundation “Gary Barbera Cares” will provide food for the event.
A bus will then take the attendees to Citizens Bank Park where the Phillies take on the Atlanta Braves Friday night at 6:45 p.m. Before the game, Caseem Wongus will throw out the first pitch.
On Friday, Jan. 31, 2025, just after 6 p.m., a Learjet 55 operated by Jet Rescue Air Ambulance crashed along Cottman Avenue in front of the Roosevelt Mall near Roosevelt Boulevard, sparking a massive explosion and fire.
Wongus jumped into action to help save a 9-year-old boy on the ground who was badly burned by the fire. The boy’s father, 37-year-old Steven Dreuitt, died from his injuries that night while Dreuitt’s girlfriend, Dominique Goods-Burke, died from her injuries three months later.
All six people aboard the plane — including 11-year-old Valentina Guzman Murillo, who had just completed treatment for a life-threatening medical condition and her mother, Lizeth Murillo Ozuna — were killed in the crash.
Officials identified the crew that perished in the crash as Capt. Alan Alejandro Montoya Perales, co-pilot Josue de Jesus Juarez Juarez, Dr. Raul Meza Arredondo, and paramedic Rodrigo Lopez Padilla.
The plane was headed to Branson, Missouri, and then on to Mexico.
The crash also injured dozens of other people and damaged around 350 properties in Northeast Philadelphia.
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David Chang
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