#10 December 26th, 2016 Prior to her birthday, the parents of Rubi
Ibarra Garcia accidentally posted a public invitation for “everyone” to attend her
15th party.
Held in La Joya community, in central Mexico, a horse race was to be put on in her honor
with the winner taking away a grand prize of 10,000 pesos or about $490 dollars.
The invitation went viral on social media and thousands of people turned up to help
her celebrate her special day and partake in the race.
66-year-old Felix Pena was one attendee that hoped to walk away a winner.
A local stable worker, Peña regularly raced horses and had entered his own horse, Oso
Dormido, into the event.
As he stood cheering on, he somehow stepped into the path of a galloping horse and was
trampled.
Some eyewitnesses speculated that he might have misjudged the distance and speed of the
oncoming horse, but it’s still unclear what had led the experienced horseman into its
path.
Pena was rushed to a hospital, but died on the way.
When asked about the party police said that, apart from his accident, it had gone on peacefully.
#9 22nd May 2021 Stephen Anderson and his family travelled
for a weekend getaway to Center Hill Lake, Tennessee, with 2 other couples to celebrate
his birthday.
Unfortunately, the celebrations were abruptly cut short on Saturday.
Whilst enjoying a day at the lake, the father-of-two fell from a rock bluff and died.
He had decided to scale the rocks to gain a better vantage point from which to jump
into the lake, but as he was climbing, he lost his footing.
He was seen hitting rock after rock as he tumbled down the cliff and into the water.
The recovery process required the collaboration of many, but his body was finally found and
recovered with the use of a remote aquatic robot, 165 feet below the surface.
#8 22nd May 2021 Another person tragically fell to their death
at a birthday party, also on May the 22nd of 2021.
24-year-old investment firm employee Cameron Perrelli was attending a rooftop party in
Manhattan’s East Village when she slipped and fell between two buildings.
It was reported that she’d been trying to climb between two rooftops and was attempting
to use an air-conditioning vent when she slipped.
She fell at around 3:00 am, on Saturday morning, and was taken to a local hospital where she
was declared dead.
Authorities didn’t suspect foul play, but Perrelli’s family was left confused as she’d
never been one to take risks.
Her death prompted officials to call for a crackdown on a string of weekly overcrowded
and noisy rooftop parties reported in the area.
#7 Teodoro Macias May 9th 2021 Sandra Ibarra and her extended family were
gathered to celebrate a birthday on May the 9th of 2021, when it was crashed by her boyfriend.
Fueled by rage over not being invited, her boyfriend, Teodoro Macias, showed up to the
birthday party and opened fire on the attendees.
The couple had been dating for a year, but recent tensions between Macias and her family,
stemming from another family gathering, compelled her to forgo his invite.
7 people were killed including Ibarra and Macias, who ended the attack by taking his
own life in front of adults and children alike.
Extensive interviews with Ibarra’s family led police to believe that at the core, it
had been a “horrendous act of domestic violence” and characterized Macias as controlling and
jealous.
#6 December 15th, 2015 Two gunmen forced their way into a children’s
birthday party at a motel in Santee, South Carolina, in what was deemed as an attempted
robbery.
The armed robbers forced the 2 adults, 3 children, and 1 infant in attendance into a corner and
demanded that the father of the birthday girl give them his property.
The man was about to begin cutting his daughter’s birthday cake when the two party-crashers
barged in brandishing guns.
According to reports, the gunmen fired shots outside the room and even held up a 7-year-old
child at gunpoint, as a means of scaring the victims.
Once the robbers got what they wanted, they made a quick getaway in a woman’s car but
were caught soon after.
Police identified the perpetrators as Santee locals, 24-year-old Alexander Outlaw, and
17-year-old Rufus Gates.
Outlaw was charged with 6 counts of kidnapping, first-degree burglary, and possession of a
weapon during a violent crime and was given a 10-year sentence.
Gates faced multiple charges of kidnapping, armed robbery, and possession of a weapon,
but the charges were dropped.
Still a minor, Gates pleaded guilty to second-degree robbery and was sentenced to a maximum of
five years under the Youthful Offenders Act.
Police identified the getaway car and the driver pled guilty to misprision of a felony,
but the judge dropped her 5-year sentence to 1 year on probation.
#5 July 28th, 2019 Fit and healthy Cambridge University graduate
Dominic Hamlyn unexpectedly died at his brother’s birthday party while performing a party trick
he’d practiced since childhood.
It was more of a challenge in which opponents would swim as many lengths of the pool as
they could, underwater, before they had to rise to the surface to take a breath.
Hamlyn had swum about two-and-a-half lengths when he became unresponsive and stopped moving.
His unconscious body was pulled from the water within seconds and his father, a neurosurgeon,
began to give him emergency treatment until paramedics arrived.
Despite the quick response, doctors were not able to save him and he died in a hospital
15 hours later.
In the past, Hamlyn was known to reach five or six lengths before needing to take a breath.
The official cause of death was acute cardiac arrhythmia, but doctors stated they could
only speculate on the underlying cause to which his death could be attributed.
#4 May 30th, 2020 Rian Farrell rented a high-rise apartment
building, in Melbourne, to celebrate his girlfriend’s birthday but left in handcuffs after stabbing
and killing his childhood best friend, Liam Cahill.
A few hours into the party, Cahill had an altercation with another guest and Farrell
promptly asked him to leave.
Offended that he was the one being kicked out, a fight broke out between the friends.
During the brawl, Farrell grabbed a kitchen knife and plunged it through Cahill’s chest.
The victim stumbled into the hallway before collapsing and dying.
Ferrell, upon finding his body, pleaded with him to wake up, but then chose to flee by
scaling the apartment building and breaking into another flat.
He was spotted by police at the bottom and he was taken into custody.
In court, Farrell insisted that Cahill had punched him first and had him backed into
a corner.
Nonetheless, Farrell said he was consumed with guilt and regret.
He pled guilty to manslaughter.
Cahill and Farrell had grown up side-by-side since primary school and were both studying
as apprentice plumbers.
Cahill’s father condemned it as “a despicable act of betrayal” and vowed he’d never
forgive Farrell.
#3 28th February 2020 Russian influencer Ekaterina Didenko’s birthday
party, in February of 2020, turned to tragedy when a stunt involving dry ice went wrong.
The famous blogger and her husband had been hosting friends at a Moscow pool complex to
celebrate her 29th when over 55 pounds of dry ice were thrown into a swimming pool.
It was intended to create a dramatic visual effect to impress guests but instead sent
7 people to the hospital and killed 3.
When added to the pool, the frozen carbon dioxide created a thick toxic vapor that caused
acute carbon dioxide poisoning and chemical burns to party-goers in the pool.
Didenko’s husband was amongst those taken to the hospital, but his injuries proved too
severe and he was pronounced dead shortly after.
While at the hospital, Didenko posted multiple videos to her 1 million subscribers updating
them on her state and breaking the news about her husband.
As her following began to grow in the aftermath, she continued to post videos documenting her
grief for which she was branded “immoral”.
Prior to the tragedy, as a trained pharmacist, Didenko dedicated her page to sharing advice
about at-home medicine along with glimpses into her personal life.
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#2 Dec 24th, 2019 Carolee Dawn Taylor’s uncle was hosting
her 46th birthday party at his house, in Harris County, Texas when her violent ex-boyfriend,
Albert Benjamin Simon, turned up and demanded to see her.
Taylor’s uncle had watched Simon pull up in front of his house, just before 9 pm, and
recognizing who he was, walked out to meet him.
Simon, in turn, met him with the barrel of a gun pointed at his chest and forced his
way into the party moments after the final notes of “Happy Birthday” rang out.
Brandishing 2 guns, he took Taylor outside onto the porch and threatened to kill her
if any party-goers called the police.
Shortly after, multiple gunshots echoed out and Taylor’s uncle is said to have found
her dead with 5 gunshot wounds to her head and body.
Simon fled the scene and was missing for several days during which he apparently sought out
a friend to hide his car and confess to the murder.
Four days after the shooting, Simon was located sitting on a bench in Hermann Park.
The altercation that followed led a deputy to open fire on the hostile suspect hitting
him at least two times.
He was rushed to the closest hospital but succumbed to his injuries.
#1 Oct 6th, 2018 18 people were riding in a 2011 Ford Excursion
limousine, on the afternoon of October the 6th of 2018, when it crashed in Schoharie,
New York.
The group had gathered to celebrate the birthday of Amy Steenburg and was made up of her newlywed
husband as well as her closest friends and relatives.
The limousine was on the way to the birthday venue at a local brewery when it blew through
an intersection, crashed into a parked car, and went flying into a ravine.
Along with the death of the driver and all 17 passengers, 2 nearby pedestrians were struck
and killed in the crash.
Investigations into the tragedy found fault in the vehicle, the driver, and the company.
The limousine had failed two mechanical inspections for deficient brakes and been ordered out
of service by the state.
Furthermore, the vehicle was only certified to take 10 of the 17 passengers and the driver
was licensed to take less than 15.
The owner and operator, Nauman Hussain, was arrested and charged for criminally negligent
homicide and second-degree manslaughter.
He fought the accusation by stating the brake failure was unforeseen and that the onus should
be on the fraudulent shop they had hired to fix the brakes.
The limousine crash made history as the deadliest US transportation accident in 9 years.
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