{"id":360356,"date":"2026-09-30T01:57:16","date_gmt":"2026-09-30T01:57:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/360356\/"},"modified":"2026-09-30T01:57:16","modified_gmt":"2026-09-30T01:57:16","slug":"bronx-raised-attorney-long-island-husband-among-4-americans-killed-in-greece-blast","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/360356\/","title":{"rendered":"Bronx-Raised Attorney, Long Island Husband Among 4 Americans Killed In Greece Blast"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Florida Hoxha grew up in the Bronx and was a senior attorney at the New York Legal Assistance Group, according to <a href=\"https:\/\/abc7ny.com\/post\/greece-building-explosion-westchester-mourns-bronx-raised-lawyer-killed-blast\/19889139\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">ABC News. <\/a>Her husband, Ian Alexander Kirkpatrick, was from Huntington and attended Huntington High School from 2003 to 2007, according to his LinkedIn profile.<\/p>\n<p>Hoxha and Kirkpatrick were killed alongside Hoxha\u2019s brother, Florin Hoxha, and his wife, Erisa Cani, on Friday, Sept. 25, when an early-morning explosion destroyed a residential building on Lysikratous Street in Athens\u2019 historic Plaka district.<\/p>\n<p>Westchester County Legislator Vedat Gashi mourned Hoxha in a Facebook post.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFlorida was a friend: smart, ambitious, and devoted to her community. We met when she reached out to ask how she could help my campaign. As I got to know her, her questions turned to how she could help others. She never stopped asking how she could give more.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI was deeply impressed by her, and I was excited to see where her passion and drive would take her. That future was taken far too soon.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Florin Hoxha studied at Emory University and was a co-founder at Prufrock Builders, his LinkedIn page showed. Florin was vacationing with his wife, Erisa Cani, who works as an <a href=\"https:\/\/tcop.touro.edu\/pharmd\/faculty\/list\/eris-cani.php\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">assistant professor of pharmacy practice at Touro College,<\/a> in Greece, according to <a href=\"https:\/\/abc7ny.com\/post\/greece-building-explosion-westchester-mourns-bronx-raised-lawyer-killed-blast\/19889139\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">ABC News. <\/a>Erisa was reportedly three months pregnant.<\/p>\n<p class=\"e-click-here-follow-btn\" data-testid=\"bottom-paragraph\">\n            <a class=\"e-email-signup\" js-follow-button=\"\" data-testid=\"article-click-here-to-subscribe\">Click here<\/a><br \/>\n            to follow Daily Voice  and receive free news updates.\n          <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Florida Hoxha grew up in the Bronx and was a senior attorney at the New York Legal Assistance&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":360357,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[128,9,24,63,129,131,130],"class_list":["post-360356","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-the-bronx","tag-bronx","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc","tag-the-bronx","tag-the-bronx-headlines","tag-the-bronx-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/360356","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=360356"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/360356\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/360357"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=360356"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=360356"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=360356"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}