Tanya Pardazi Moghaddam, a resident of Richmond Hill, died Aug. 27, police said. She was known as Tanya Pardazi by friends and on social media. Emergency crews responded to the area of 10 Sideroad and Route 4 in Innisfil Ont., around 5:40 p.m. for reports of a parachute incident. South Simcoe police said Pardazi was seriously injured when he jumped from a plane operated by a local skydiving club. She was taken to a local hospital where she was pronounced dead.
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Story continues below ad Police said the investigation is ongoing. Following their appeal for information on Thursday, a South Simcoe police spokesman clarified that the incident was “not considered suspicious”. “We often issue multiple subpoenas to investigations as part of our due diligence. We can never assume that we are reaching everyone we might need to reach with one appeal,” the spokesperson added. “There has been a lot of discussion around this incident on social media due to Tanya’s high profile and we would like to hear directly from people if they have any information that could help the investigation.” The spokesman said it was a forensic investigation, which the police were assisting and the coroner would “determine the classification”. Trending Stories
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“The owner of the skydiving business is working closely with the police and the coroner and is being very co-operative,” the spokesman added. Skydive Toronto previously released a statement saying the victim was a “recent addition” to the skydiving community. “The parachutist released a rapidly rotating main parachute at low altitude without the time/altitude required to inflate the backup parachute,” the statement said.
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Story continues below ad “The jumper was a welcome recent addition to the skydiving community and will be missed by the student’s new friends and fellow jumpers at Skydive Toronto Inc. The Skydive Toronto Inc team has been deeply affected by this accident as they have been improving their student training program for over 50 years.” The company said it is working with South Simcoe police on their investigation. Pardazi’s friends said she was a “truly adventurous” person who will be missed. “He was always in search of answers to the smallest and biggest problems in life and he didn’t stop until he got them,” Kimia Sepanlou, a close friend, told Global News. She maintained a successful Tiktok account alongside her studies at the University of Toronto, friends said, and had been labeled as a TikTok influencer. Police are asking anyone with information or video that may help the investigation to contact Det. Const. Dan Raymond at 705-436-2141 ext. 1027 or Crime Stoppers anonymously. — With files by Isaac Callan Tanya Pardazi died last month. He contributed © 2022 Global News, a division of Corus Entertainment Inc.
