On March 23, 2025, tragedy struck Gianna Buzzetta, an executive pastry chef who worked at the Jeune et Jolie restaurant in Carlsbad.

According to her family, she had been living out a lifelong dream of visiting the waterfall when the tragic accident occurred.

When Oceanside native Gianna Buzzetta landed the prestigious job of pastry chef at Michelin-starred Jeune et Jolie restaurant in Carlsbad in the summer of 2022, she was just 23 years old.

The Kauai Fire Department reports 26-year-old Gianna Buzzetta was hiking on Makaleha Falls Trail with her boyfriend Connor. According to the ABC-affiliate KGTV in San Diego, a boulder fell and struck ...

Family members say Gianna Buzzetta, 26, was on vacation in Kaua‘i with her boyfriend when the incident occurred on March 23. Kaua‘i Fire Department says it received a call around 2pm about an injured ...

Gianna Buzzetta, 26, was hit by the falling debris on March 23 as she was checking out the Makaleha Falls waterfall in Kauai with boyfriend Connor Quinton, who was described as her “soon-to-be ...

Gianna Buzzetta was hiking with her boyfriend when the accident took place on Sunday, March 23 Anna Lazarus Caplan is a writer-reporter for PEOPLE. She has been working at PEOPLE since 2022.

Gianna Buzzetta, a 26-year-old executive pastry chef at the Jeune et Jolie restaurant in Carlsbad, was hiking the challenging waterfall trail with her boyfriend last week when disaster struck ...

An acclaimed pastry chef was killed by a boulder during a picturesque hike on the Hawaiian island of Kauai, officials said. Gianna Buzzetta, a 26-year-old from California, was hit by a falling ...

Gianna Buzzetta was fatally struck by a boulder, she told her boyfriend she had had the best day while on vacation in Hawaii.

OCEANSIDE, Calif. (KGTV) — Gianna Buzzetta, a 26-year-old rising culinary star and executive pastry chef at the Michelin-starred Jeune et Jolie restaurant in Carlsbad, California, died last ...