In the stillness of night, a quiet, tree-lined street in a San Diego neighborhood was plunged into chaos when a plane clipped a power line and crashed – turning cars into fireballs and sending residents fleeing in a haze of smoke and confusion.

Pierce the Veil are a group Shapiro worked especially close with as their agent, manager and friend. He attended the band's sold-out show this past Tuesday at New York City's Madison Square Garden, and flew out of New Jersey's Teterboro Airport the following night to head back home.

A Cessna 550 crashed into a Murphy Canyon neighborhood just before 4 a.m. with an unknown number of people on board. Several home caught fire as an apparent result of the crash, leading to evacuations in the military housing neighborhood. Fire fighters are continuing to try to contain the blazes, with smoke visible from outside the neighborhood.