Three more victims of the Sept. 11 terrorist attack were identified, the New York City Office of the Chief Medical Examiner announced Thursday.
The victims were identified as Ryan Fitzgerald of Floral Park, New York, Barbara Keating of Palm Springs, California, and an adult woman whose name was withheld at the request of her family. The medical examiner said they are the 1,651st, 1,652nd, and 1,653rd victims positively identified through DNA technology.
“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,” New York City Mayor Eric Adams said in a statement.
A little more than half of the 2,753 people killed at the World Trade Center on 9/11 have been identified. Around 40%, or about 1,100, of the victims of the terrorist attack remain unidentified.
The three victims are the latest to be identified since January 2024.
According to his obituary, Fitzgerald was a “man on the town” who had just moved to Manhattan at the age of 26 to work as a foreign currency trader at Fiduciary Trust in the South Tower of the World Trade Center.
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Keating was a 72-year-old breast cancer survivor on American Airlines Flight 11 en route home to California after visiting her grandchildren, according to her obituary.
“Nearly 25 years after the disaster at the World Trade Center, our commitment to identify the missing and return them to their loved ones stands as strong as ever,” said Dr. Jason Graham, New York City’s chief medical examiner. “Each new identification testifies to the promise of science and sustained outreach to families despite the passage of time. We continue this work as our way of honoring the lost.”
