Extreme sports star and MTV personality Erik Roner died on Monday when he struck a tree while skydiving for the opening ceremony of a celebrity golf event.
Witnesses told deputies Roner was part of a group conducting a skydiving performance for a golf event, when he hit a tree while trying to land and became entangled high above ground.
Authorities were not able to remove him from the tree and Roner was pronounced dead at the scene.
All the other skydivers landed safely, he said.
Roner was known for being part of the Nitro Circus, an MTV show centred around freestyle motocross rider Travis Pastrana and his crew of extreme sports athlete friends.
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