Parkway Drive, The Amity Affliction, and more have paid touching tributes to influential music agent Dave Shapiro. Shapiro, who co-founded Sound Talent Group, died in a plane crash in San Diego, California last week,

Dave Shapiro, agent for bands like Sum 41, and former Devil Wears Prada drummer Daniel Williams, were killed in a plane crash in San Diego on Thursday. Dave Shapiro, 42, and Daniel Williams, 39, were among those killed in a plane crash in San Diego on Thursday morning.

“We lost one of the best people ever,” Shane Told, vocalist for the Ontario post-hardcore band Silverstein wrote in an Instagram story. “I watched Dave go from drummer and merch guy to entrepreneur and one of the most important people in the industry. But along the way he was first and foremost a friend.”

A plane crash in San Diego's Tierrasanta killed at least three people, including music executive David Shapiro, and displaced nearly 100 residents amid devastation.