A former Florida beauty queen was killed by the devastating earthquakes that shook Venezuela last week, her family confirmed Monday after she was found lying side-by-side with her boyfriend underneath the rubble of their building.
Skarlent Rodríguez, 23, and her boyfriend José Castro had been missing for several days after their apartment building in the heavily damaged region of Catia La Mar in La Guaira state collapsed during one of the June 24 earthquakes, HOLA! reported.
Following an extensive search-and-rescue effort, the bodies of Rodríguez and Castro were recovered on Monday, lying together buried beneath the rubble of their building, the Rodríguez and Castro families announced on their joint GoFundMe page.
“Sadly, they were both found dead…side by side, together until the very end,” the two grief-stricken families wrote on the fundraiser.
