THREE new victims of the September 11 terror attacks on the World Trade Center have been identified nearly 25 years later.
DNA analysis and help from families helped identify a man and two women as three new victims in the tragedy that killed 2,753 people.
9/11 Birthday TributesRyan Fitzgerald was identified as the 1,651st victim of the 9/11 terror attacks[/caption]
APSmoke rising from the burning twin towers of the World Trade Center after hijacked planes crashed into the towers in New York City on September 11, 2001[/caption]
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New York City Mayor Eric Adams and New York City Chief Medical Examiner Dr. Jason Graham announced the identification on Thursday, making the first 9/11 identifications of 2025.
Ryan Fitzgerald, Barbara Keating, and a woman whose family requested her name be withheld were the 1,651st, 1,652nd, and 1,653rd victims identified.
The remains of around 1,100 victims, 40 percent of the people who died, are still unidentified as they sit behind a wall at the Ground Zero memorial in New York City.
OCME has identified a total of 25 human remains of previously identified individuals, including the three that were announced on Thursday.
“The pain of losing a loved one in the September 11th terror attacks echoes across the decades, but with these three new identifications, we take a step forward in comforting the family members still aching from that day,” Adams said.
“As a former law enforcement officer who served our city on 9/11, I understand deeply the feeling of loss so many families have experienced.
“We hope the families receiving answers from the Office of Chief Medical Examiner can take solace in the city’s tireless dedication to this mission.”
The medical examiner’s office has never stopped and will continue DNA testing the bodies found in the wreckage.
REMEMBERING RYAN FITZGERALD
Fitzgerald’s identification was confirmed through DNA testing on his remains that were recovered in 2002, OCME said.
The 26-year-old’s obituary remembered him as a “man on the town” who worked as a foreign currency trader at Fiduciary Trust in the South Tower.
He was on the 94th floor of the World Trade Center when it collapsed.
Fitzgerald was a native of Floral Park, New York, who had just gotten his own place in Manhattan.
He was studying for his Master’s degree in business administration at Dowling College and dating his girlfriend, Darci Spinner, at the time of his death.
REMEMBERING BARBARA KEATING
Keating, 72, was on American Airlines Flight 11 on her way home to Palm Springs, California, after visiting her grandchildren on the East Coast
The grandma was identified through DNA testing of her remains, which were first recovered in 2001.
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