Riley Fritz — a 2005 graduate of Staples High School — is believed to be one of the 36 people killed this weekend in the Oakland warehouse fire.
Riley’s father, Bruce Fritz, is en route to California, at the coroner’s request.
Bruce Fritz told the Connecticut Post that the 29-year-old played bass guitar locally, graduated from the School for the Visual Arts in Manhattan in 2010. and recently moved to Oakland.
After college, Riley identified as a woman. She used the name Feral Pines.
The Post said that although she was at the electronic music show and party at the Oakland artists’ collective — a former warehouse — she did not live there.
Funeral arrangements are incomplete.
Feral Pines