WWE superstar whose father died in Twin Towers on September 11, 2001

One of the most shocking events in the history of mankind happened on September 11, 2001. A day that remains in everyone’s memory because of the despicable terrorist attack on the Twin Towers in New York, where one of the superstars now in WWE lost his father. in that attack. This is Zelina Vega.

What happened to the Twin Towers in 2001?

Maybe you’re too young to remember it or you weren’t born yet, but the so-called “9/11” refers to September 11, 2001, when a two-person plane was hijacked by a group of terrorist associates. of the extremist group Al-Qaeda .

The two planes crashed into the Twin Towers, which is the most important financial symbol of the United States, located in the World Trade Center in New York. The office headquarters for thousands of workers, with Tuesday only a working day, until the panic.

Both buildings collapsed minutes after being hit and hundreds of lives were extinguished. According to official figures from the US government, almost 3,000 people died in terrorist attacks on September 11. Among the dead was the father of Zelina Vega, current WWE wrestler.

Zelina Vega’s father died in the Twin Towers

Those unforgettable events made 9/11 one of the most sentimental dates and patriotic pride for the United States. Tributes to the fallen remain to this day, as the fountains created where the Twin Towers are located bear the names of the deceased, who to this date have received countless tributes.

There is the name of Michael Trinidad, father of Zelina Vega, who works in one of the two towers. A phone call changed his life, as he told it in a documentary made by the WWE Network about this symbolic date.

“The house phone rang and, immediately, I saw my mother excitedly coming down the stairs to turn on the television. He started shouting: ‘Michael, you’re there!’ I asked him if he meant my uncle and he told me he was my father, that he worked there,” Vega recalled.

Trinidad works as a data analyst at the company Cantor Fitzgerald. His office was on the 103rd floor and he was trapped as the plane crashed below him. The saddest thing is that Zelina remembers her father calling home after the plane to say goodbye.

“My mother asked him to go up the stairs, but he couldn’t get out, he was stuck. My father told her, ‘Listen, Monique, I need you to know how much I love you and how sorry I am for everything that happened between us. Tell my kids I love them,” said the WWE superstar.

His parents divorced years ago and, according to his story, the last person who spoke to his father was his stepfather, on the same call. “I know you will love them as much as I do. I am begging you to be a father to them that I can no longer do.”