INDIANAPOLIS — A sudden fluke windstorm that collapsed the stage Saturday evening at the Indiana State Fair, has claimed the lives of five people, including Chicago LGBT activist, Christina Santiago.
Photo via: The L Stop
Santiago was the programming manager for the Lesbian Community Care Project (LCCP) at Chicago’s Howard Brown Health Center.
With a heavy, heavy heart we report that Christina Santiago was amongst those killed in the Indiana State Fair accident.
Before the band Sugarland was able to perform, strong winds knocked down the stage onto the crowd. Christina was amongst the 4 killed instantly. Her partner, Alisha Marie Brennon, a member of the Chicago Force, was also in the crowd and is currently in critical condition.
via: The L Stop
In a press statement released Sunday afternoon, Howard Brown President Jamal M. Edwards said “the sudden and devastating loss of Christina has left the entire community, including her Howard Brown Health Center family, heartbroken.”
“She has been a leading and driving force in the expansion of our women’s health services division and a powerful advocate for all LGBT women,” said Edwards.
Indiana Gov. Mitch Daniels called the accident an “unthinkable tragedy” and said the wind burst was a “fluke” that no one could have foreseen.
Warning: the video below is disturbing:
Dozens of people — including several children — remained hospitalized Sunday, many with life-threatening injuries.
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It’s so sad so many GOOD people were hurt or killed.
MaNi
supports you,
wants the best for you,
understands you.
so sad… prayers for her partner and family <3
just awful, i hope her family friends and loved ones are going to be okay.
Very sad !
Let’s not just pray for her family, but ALL families involved in this tragedy.
Terribly sad….
My hearts go out to all those who lost their life and their families. And may all those injured get well soon.
:(
So tragic. Unfortunately, I just know that the loonies over at the Westboro Baptist chutch would be jizzing their pants over this. God, why do you take the good people and leave the crazy ones behind?
Oh my, I send my deepest sympathy and condolences to all her family and friends as well as ALL families involved in this tragedy. :-(
Why would u like this. This is so tragic. Hope every one is okay from this and my condolence to the ones who lost a loved one and my thoughts to the ones who where lost.
hurts even more losing one of our own leaders, this is so very sad
So very sad and to lose one of our own even sadder when we need all the help we can get – RIP Christina – and for the others, go with God….my question is why are they playing the video for all and sundry? Give people their dignity when they die for goodness’ sake!
shit.. dam.. so sad :(
What a loss!
The Good in the world. :(
Very tragic. Thank you for sharing this information.
My heart goes out to you alisha
Oh good Goddess.
I live in Indiana, and this is absolutely terrible. However, they’ve been showing the stage collapse over and over again. I wish the media would let these families have their own time without it being shoved in their faces every hour. It’s hard enough as it is. My thoughts and love go out to the families of the deceased and everyone that was injured.
Erase the hate. One love <3
is sending love and light to all of the families devastated by this tragedy and to those injured and struggling to recover.
RIP. And wishes for full recovery. Tragic loss.
I’m pretty sure people don’t like it, they just want to share it. If you click ‘Recommend’, it shows up as like, and even that is rather insensitive. All a game of semantics, the point is, people need to hear about this.
that’s life…it ends, it begins…
Y did *SEVEN* ppl “like this!?!?!??!?!?!??!
my heart dropped when I saw the video. This is truly devistating. Whoever liked this has mental issues and honestly needs to be sent to a crazy hospital.
Probably the people who “liked” it meant they “liked” the reporting of it, not the fact that it happened.
“Fluke” describes an unusual event. A wind gust from a severe thunderstorm is NOT a ‘fluke’…it is an expected occurrence. That’s why there was a Severe Thunderstorm WARNING issued for this location 10 minutes before this occurred, because this was what was EXPECTED to happen. The area around the stage should have been emptied of people by this time. It wasn’t. That isn’t a ‘fluke’. That’s a human error.