A 29-year-old Chapman University cinematography student was killed in a dune buggy crash during a shooting in Imperial Valley on April 15.
Peng Wang, a third-year graduate student, was partially ejected from a 2022 Can-Am Maverick UTV in the Imperial Sand Dunes Recreation Area when the vehicle overturned while moving along the side of a sand dune.
“I’m absolutely heartbroken about this, like all of us at Chapman. This is an incredibly supportive and caring community, and we’ve all been devastated,” Stephen Galloway, dean of Dodge College of Film and Media Arts at Chapman University, told KTLA.
Wang volunteered as a cinematographer on the production with three other students from the University of Southern California (USC) School of Cinematic Arts.