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12.19.2003
People in the story
Michael Hoogasian
The family-oriented Coca-Cola deliveryman, who loved music and tattoos, married Sandy Leocadio in October 2001.
Sandy Hoogasian
She worked at the Gap, and married Michael Hoogasian in October 2001. Her parents had emigrated from the Azores to the United States.
Skott Greene
The talented tattoo artist opened a parlor in West Warwick's Quaker Valley Mall in 2001; his first celebrity customer was Jack Russell.
Jay McLaughlin
The veteran Pawtucket firefighter alerted his brother-in-law Michael Hoogasian to the troubling safety conditions at The Station in October 2001.
Jack Russell
He is the lead singer in Great White, the heavy metal band whose pyrotechnics triggered the fire at The Station nightclub on Feb. 20, 2003.
Jimmy Gahan
The junior at Nichols College, in Dudley, Mass., worked as a disc jockey for the campus radio station and landed an interview with Jack Russell, of Great White, on the night of The Station concert.
Michael "Mikey" Ricardi
The Nichols College radio disc jockey interviewed Jack Russell, of Great White, on the night of The Station fire. Russell invited Ricardi and Jimmy Gahan to attend the concert.
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