Shorter met Ana Maria Patricio in 1966 and they were married in 1970 . In 1985 , their daughter Iska died of a grand mal seizure at age 14 . Ana Maria and the couple 's niece , Dalila , were both killed on July 17 , 1996 , on TWA Flight 800 , while travelling to visit him in Italy . Dalila was the daughter of Ana Maria Shorter 's sister and her husband , jazz vocalist Jon Lucien . In 1999 , Shorter married Carolina Dos Santos , a close friend of Ana Maria . He practices Nichiren Buddhism and is a longtime member of the Buddhist association Soka Gakkai International
TWA Flight 800
TWA Flight 800
Wayne Shorter