SANTEE, Calif. (KGTV) — A candlelight vigil will be held to honor the UPS driver who was killed in the Santee plane crash on Monday.Steve Kruger, 61, of Pacific Beach, had worked for UPS for nearly 30 years, was at least one of the multiple deaths in the crash.“I’ve heard nothing but lovely things about him. Loved by so many of his customers,” said Suzanne Coleman, a longtime Santee resident who worked with one of Krueger’s friends to organize the vigil.“We just want to show some love and support to everybody affected, it’s for Steve but it’s really for everyone touched by this,” she said.The ..read more

SANTEE, Calif. (KGTV) — Investigators on Thursday were still looking into the events that led to a deadly plane crash in Santee earlier this week.The timeline of events unfolded quickly on Monday, as fire and emergency crews rushed to the scene at Greencastle and Jeremy Streets just after 12:30 p.m. Two homes and a UPS vehicle were engulfed in flames.Crews soon stamped out the flames, leaving behind the partial structure of one home and completely destroying the other.The investigation has continued since then, with the identities of the UPS driver and pilot killed in the crash revealed, and n ..read more

SANTEE, Calif. (KGTV) -- Wreckage from the plane crash in Santee that killed two people and destroyed two homes has been removed from the scene and relocated to a facility in Arizona.The National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) investigators that arrived on the scene Tuesday completed their on-scene investigation Wednesday.The NTSB said investigators documented the scene, interviewed several witnesses, and gathered footage from security cameras.RELATED STORIES:Yuma cardiologist killed in Santee plane crash identified'Climb immediately': Air traffic audio reveals issues before deadly Santee ..read more

SANTEE, Calif. (KGTV) — The brother of the UPS driver killed in Monday's plane crash in a Santee neighborhood said his brother loved interacting with people and his route in the community.Jeff Krueger, the brother of 61-year-old Steve Krueger, said his brother was nearing retirement and excited for what lied ahead."Next October was going to be his retirement time," Jeff said. "Plan was to get a fully contained SUV, spend six months traveling through Alaska. Go off the grid. He was really excited to do this, an adventure. He never got to do this."Jeff said Krueger was "almost like a kid on Chri ..read more

SANTEE, Calif. (KGTV) — Audio reveals how quickly issues unfolded during the final conversation between the pilot of the deadly Santee plane crash and air traffic officials.The audio reveals air traffic controllers working to coordinate the pilots landing at Montgomery-Gibbs Executive Airport. The plane had taken off from Yuma, Ariz.In the last minute and a half of audio posted on LiveATC.net, signs of confusion can be heard, stirring more questions of what may have led to the crash."Two-two-gulf, looks like you're drifting right off course, are you correcting?" air traffic asks the pilot."Cor ..read more

SANTEE, Calif. (KGTV) – At least two people were confirmed dead after a plane crashed in a neighborhood near Santana High School in Santee Monday afternoon, causing a fire that engulfed at least two homes.At around 12:30 p.m., authorities began receiving reports of a plane down in a neighborhood on Greencastle Street, near Jeremy Street. According to the FAA, the plane was a twin-engine Cessna C340 and crashed at about 12:15 p.m. The FAA added, "We do not yet know how many people were on board."The plane was owned by Dr. Sugata Das, according to the Yuma Regional Medical Center, however there ..read more

SAN DIEGO (KGTV) — San Diego Sheriff's Department said Wednesday it has identified a suspect in a 40-year-old cold case involving the death of a Santee woman.The department announced that through the use of genetic genealogy, it has identified John Patrick Hogan, or "Pat Hogan," as the suspect in the sexual assault and murder of Michelle Louise Wyatt in 1980.Hogan, who died in 2004 at the age of 42, was identified after investigators matched unknown DNA found at the scene of Wyatt's murder to Hogan, investigators said in a release. According to the department, "the investigation revealed subst ..read more

SANTEE, Calif. (CNS) - A brush fire that burned an unknown number of acres was extinguished Sunday near Mission Gorge Road, according to the Heartland Fire and Rescue Department said.A call was received at 12:45 p.m. reporting the fire was racing up a hill near westbound state Route 52, a Heartland fire dispatcher said.Firefighters extinguished the blaze just before 2:30 p.m., the dispatcher said.There were 13 units from Heartland fire that were used to stop the blaze, he said ..read more

SANTEE (CNS) - A retail store clerk was arrested on suspicion of furnishing alcohol to a minor and two adults who bought alcohol for a minor were also arrested during a decoy operation in Santee, sheriff's officials said Sunday.On Saturday, deputies with the San Diego County Sheriff's Department, agents with the state Department of Alcohol Beverage Control and three minor decoys conducted the operations at various locations in Santee.The minor decoys tested retailers at six locations, trying to buy alcoholic beverages inside the stores. A clerk at one of the stores sold alcohol to a teen and w ..read more

San Diego (KGTV)---Suzanne lives just a few miles from the Sycamore landfill in Santee. A few weeks ago she received a letter from the San Diego Air Pollution Control District."It scared me but what are you gonna do?" Suzanne said.It says in part, that based on data from 2013, a health risk assessment shows that some toxic air contaminants, primarily arsenic and diesel particulate matter, may be increasing the cancer risks for people to 38 chances in a million.The law requires the public to be notified when the risk goes past 10 chances in a million."I was very disheartened cause we've never h ..read more