What we know about victims of deadly Brooklyn building collapse
Workers look on at the scene of a partial building collapse on November 12, 2026 in the Flatbush neighborhood in the Brooklyn borough of New York City. Eight people have been confirmed killed and 17 others injured after a three-story building partially collapsed into an open construction site at Bedford Ave. and Flatbush Ave. in Brooklyn. (Ryan Murphy/Getty Images)
Authorities in New York City have identified the eight people who were killed when a three-story building in Brooklyn collapsed into an open construction site on Wednesday.
Two children, ages 9 and 10, were among those killed, according to authorities.
The NYPD identified the victims as:
Nicole Daniela Salvada Rodriguez, 9Kevin Santiago Reyes Gonzalez, 10Gabriel Siguencia, 22Barry Mamadou, 23Jose Luis Caguana Cosquillo, 26Edgar Sapon, 26Juan Daniel Salvada Guzman, 31Ndiaye Mamadou, 31
“These were our friends and our neighbors, parents and children, young families building their lives in our city, and immigrants from Mexico, Colombia, Ecuador, Trinidad and beyond,” New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani said during a news conference on Thursday.
Two of the victims were construction workers, he said.
In addition, 18 other people were injured, including four firefighters, officials said. One person remained in critical condition as of Thursday morning, the mayor said.
The building collapse left a pile of rubble near the corner of Flatbush and Bedford Avenues in the Flatbush neighborhood of Brooklyn, shearing off the wall of another three-story apartment building and touching off a desperate search-and-rescue operation for survivors.
Of the victims, six people were pronounced dead at the scene, including four recovered overnight,and two people died at the hospital overnight, authorities said Thursday.
Officials praised the work of first responders and those caught in the initial collapse.
“Construction workers who had only barely survived themselves turned back and dug victims out of the rubble,” Mamdani said. “People are alive today because of their heroism yesterday.”
Rescue operations concluded Thursday afternoon, after authorities determined there were no more victims, the FDNY said.
Secretary of Homeland Security Markwayne Mullin speaks during a press conference at U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement headquarters, Oct. 9, 2026, in Washington. (Kevin Dietsch/Getty Images)
An Immigration and Customs Enforcement officer shot and wounded a man in a residential New York City neighborhood Thursday afternoon during what the agency called a “targeted enforcement operation.”
New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani, calling the incident an “outrage,” said the man was in a vehicle with a 5-year-old child at the time.
“School had just gotten out. The street was crowded with families and children. When the ICE agent opened fire, a 5-year-old child … was in the back seat of the car,” Mamdani said in a late-night press conference on Thursday. “Thank God that child is physically unharmed.”
New York Police Commissioner Jessica Tisch said the 28-year-old man who was shot was taken to the hospital with a gunshot to the neck below his left ear and arrived in stable condition. She said the boy, who authorities believe to be the man’s son, was safe and in the care of a family member.
DHS says shooting happened during ‘targeted enforcement operation’ The shooting occurred around 4 p.m. ET in the upper Manhattan neighborhood of Marble Hill, the NYPD said.
During a news conference Friday, Marcos Charles, DHS’s executive associate director for enforcement and removal operations, said that ICE officers attempted to arrest the suspect, Oscar Belgal, a Dominican national who had an ICE detainer, and used their vehicles to block Belgal.
Charles said Belgal has alleged associations with the Trinitarios gang and has a prior criminal conviction for grand larceny and “multiple prior arrests for assault, robbery, possession of drugs, and weapons possession.”
He alleged that the gang was involved in a shooting of a CBP officer two years ago and Belgal had knowledge of the incident.
Charles alleged that Belgal “weaponized his vehicle” and smashed it into ICE vehicles.
“Our officers, using their training, and believing that their life and the life of their partners and the general public were in danger, and fired weapons,” Charles said.
Belgal was struck in the neck and ICE agents rendered aid before he was transported to the hospital, Charles said. He was later moved to a detention facility outside New York, according to Charles.
Charles said that DHS would pursue several criminal charges.
“We will continue to place him in removal proceedings, and we will continue to try to remove him from this country as quickly as possible following his charges,” he said.
When asked about the child in the car, DHS Secretary Markwayne Mullin said ICE officers were not aware the 5-year-old was in the car during the car stop. Mullin blamed Belgal for putting the 5-year-old in that situation.
“The focus on what took place is absolutely absurd,” he said.
Officers were wearing body-worn cameras, according to Mullin, and the body-worn cameras were on.
Mullin did not commit to releasing the footage and said there is a joint FBI and HSI investigation into the shooting underway.
NYPD: ICE officer fired 7 rounds
At the press conference Thursday night with the mayor, Tisch said the man who was shot has two prior arrests in New York City, including one for robbery in 2023 to which he pleaded guilty to grand larceny and another in 2025 for the criminal sale of a controlled substance, which is still pending.
Tisch said the NYPD, which had no involvement in the shooting, responded to the scene after the shooting, finding several men in “various forms of attire,” including some in construction-style vests, face masks and at least one carrying a long gun.
She said when officers arrived, the man who was shot was handcuffed and seated on the ground before NYPD officers placed him in one of their vehicles, rendered aid and took him to the hospital.
Evidence collected from the scene indicates at least one ICE agent fired seven rounds, Tisch said. There was ballistic damage to the windshield of the man’s vehicle, a Honda CR-V, and the back window was also shattered.
The moments leading up to the shooting were captured on NYPD surveillance cameras, Tisch said.
The video shows the man backing into a parking spot near a fire hydrant before a plainclothes federal law enforcement officer approaches the driver’s side door with his gun drawn, Tisch said. Another plainclothes officer approaches by the driver’s side headlight, she said.
The vehicle then starts to drive away and goes out of camera view, Tisch said. The NYPD cameras did not capture the shooting itself, she said.
An ICE vehicle, a gray four-door sedan, had damage to the front panel and the lower panel was fully disconnected, Tisch said.
The NYPD released body camera footage of their officers responding to the scene after the shooting. The footage showed the suspect sitting on the street as he was being treated for his wound.
Bystanders are seen in the video shouting and cursing at the federal officers.
Mamdani said he spent 2 hours on phone with Trump, Mullin
At the press conference Thursday, Mamdani said he spent two hours on the phone with President Donald Trump and Mullin seeking to negotiate the release of the man who was shot.
But he said his efforts were not successful.
In a statement late Thursday night, New York Gov. Kathy Hochul said she had also spoken with Trump and the DHS secretary about the shooting.
“I expressed outrage on behalf of New Yorkers and urged them to halt ICE enforcement operations in New York,” Hochul said. “I also asked that any body camera footage of the shooting be released to the public so we can establish the facts and get to the truth.”
City officials have been told that ICE has been using a nearby Target parking lot on 225th Street as a staging area.
Protesters gathered in the hours following the shooting, some holding anti-ICE signs, as law enforcement worked the scene.
Later, hundreds of protesters gathered outside New York-Presbyterian Allen Hospital in upper Manhattan, where the man who was shot was being treated.
Mullin chastised the mayor and protesters during a news conference Friday.
“It’s shameful that you have a mayor that puts criminals above law-abiding citizens,” he said.
This photo shows the former Chi Phi fraternity house in Ithaca, where a former Cornell University student alleges that she was drugged and gang-raped in 2024. (ABC News)
(NEW YORK) — As prosecutors reopened an investigation into a former Cornell University student’s allegations of being drugged and gang-raped at a fraternity house in 2024, a state-mandated survey of undergraduate students revealed that more than one-third of undergraduate women said they had experienced sexual assault during their time at the Ivy League university.
According to the school’s 2025 Survey of Sexual Assault and Related Misconduct (SARM), 35% of undergraduate women at the Ithaca, New York, school reported experiencing nonconsensual sexual contact involving force or incapacitation since entering Cornell. Among undergraduate men, 8% said they experienced the same.
“Despite a long history of actions to address sexual assault, culminating in Cornell’s Sexual Violence Framework … rates of sexual assault remain persistently high,” according to a summary report released in March by the Cornell University Presidential Task Force on Campus Sexual Assault (TFSA).
The report also found that alcohol played a part in “the majority of reported incidents,” with the perpetrator having consumed it prior to the incident in 62% of cases and the victim having done so in 55% of incidents.
“In 50% of cases, respondents reported being conscious but incapacitated by alcohol or drugs during all or part of the incident,” according to the report, with 19% saying they were “passed out or unconscious for some or all the time.”
Reported instances of sexual assault were significantly higher among Cornell undergraduate women who were “Greek-affiliated” compared to those who were not: 52% to 29%, respectively, according to the report.
“If there’s one takeaway from all of this, it’s that we know for certain that sexual assault is underreported,” Jennifer Simmons Kaleba, vice president of communications for the Rape, Abuse & Incest National Network (RAINN), the nation’s largest anti-sexual assault organization, told ABC News.
“Whether the numbers grew 2%, 3%, something like that, the reality is it’s probably much higher than that,” Kaleba said.
Kaleba said her group, which runs a national sexual assault hotline, estimates that 1 in 6 freshman women experience sexual assault in their first year of college, and that 1 in 4 undergraduate women and 1 in 14 undergraduate men experience rape or sexual assault by force or incapacitation before they leave school.
Tompkins County, New York, District Attorney Matthew Van Houten said this week that his office is reopening an investigation into the 2024 alleged “gang rape” of a former female student by seven former and current members of the Chi Phi fraternity after the alleged victim, identified only as Jane Doe, filed a civil lawsuit earlier this month, sparking outrage when news of the suit became public.
Cornell’s Chi Phi chapter was barred from campus after the Oct. 19, 2024, rape allegations were made. Trey Robb, the interim executive director of Chi Phi fraternity, said in a statement that all the accused members were kicked out of the Cornell chapter within three days of Jane Doe filing her police report in 2024.
Three of the defendants named in the suit have denied the allegations through their attorneys.
“Any suggestion that the University did not impose consequential punishments for those involved is false,” Cornell said in a statement Monday, in part.
In an earlier statement, Cornell said it conducted a thorough Title IX investigation of Jane Doe’s allegations. “At its conclusion, the hearing panel issued a range of sanctions, which included expulsions and suspensions from Cornell,” the university’s statement said.
Van Houten said in a statement that his office is considering whether to bring criminal charges related to the incident, though he said the allegations in the civil complaint are “dramatically different” than the woman’s statement to police two years ago. He further said that his office did not bring charges in 2024 because the woman’s statement to Cornell police officers at the time did not allege she was drugged without her knowledge or that she did not consent to engage in sexual activities.
“It’s our intention to present the case to the Tompkins County grand jury with Jane Doe’s cooperation,” Van Houten told ABC News. “We want to reexamine whether there’s additional evidence that we were not aware of in November of 2024, that exists now that would change our assessment of the case and would result in the grand jury finding that there was criminal conduct.”
Kaleba told ABC News that some victims of sexual assault often do not recall exact details of what occurred to them until years later.
“One of the first things that people will say on the hotline is, ‘I think something happened,'” Kaleba said. “And so what we want is some black-and-white narrative that says everybody absolutely recognizes what sexual assault is and it’s this and it’s that, and the victim must also know exactly what happened to them and retell it to the detail with exactly the right emotion for the remainder of their lives.”
“That is profoundly unrealistic and another avenue to blame victims,” according to Kaleba.
Arleigh Burke-class guided missile destroyer USS Benfold (DDG 65) conducts routine operations in the South China Sea July 23, 2026. (U.S. Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist Seaman Andrew Novak)
(WASHINGTON) — A power failure aboard a U.S. Navy destroyer operating in the South China Sea last month left the ship’s crew without potable water, hot food, working toilets or air conditioning for four days.
The outage stemmed from an engineering failure aboard the USS Benfold, an Arleigh Burke-class guided-missile destroyer, Cmdr. Matthew Comer, a 7th Fleet spokesperson, said in a statement to ABC News.
The incident adds to concerns about the strain on the Navy as it juggles the Iran war and an expanding slate of global commitments.
The Benfold, a 30-year-old ship, was sailing with the George Washington carrier strike group on July 24 when an issue with the ship’s generators caused a complete loss of power aboard the destroyer, according to Comer.
The George Washington strike group is slated to relieve the USS Abraham Lincoln in the Middle East, where the carrier and its crew have faced an extended deployment supporting the Iran war.
“There were no injuries to the crew, who demonstrated resilience, grit, professionalism, and unwavering steadiness in their response,” Comer said of the power failure on the Benfold.
It’s unclear why the incident wasn’t disclosed by the sea service at the time.
ABC News reached out to the Navy for more information about the circumstances surrounding the power outage.
The Benfold was towed by contracted tugboats to Subic Bay in the Philippines, arriving July 28, where Navy maintenance specialists met the ship to begin repairs. Sailors were provided food and moved into contracted lodging ashore beginning the following day, Comer said.
Power was restored July 30, and repairs were completed on Aug. 7; the Benfold departed Subic Bay a day later, Comer added.
It’s unclear whether the Benfold returned to its home port of Japan or continued to sail with the Washington.
