# Seven victims of Brooklyn building collapse identified, aged nine to 31

- URL: https://talkfuse.com/story/seven-of-eight-people-killed-in-nyc-building-collapse-tragedy-identified-youngest-was-nine-and-oldest-was-just-31/
- Published: 2026-11-12T21:19:42+00:00
- Updated: 2026-11-12T21:28:08+00:00
- Original publisher: Daily Mail (publisher lean: Right)
- Original article: https://www.dailymail.com/news/article-16288399/brooklyn-building-collapse-nyc-victims-identified.html?ns_mchannel=rss&ns_campaign=1490&ito=1490
- Topics: World

## Key points

- Families are sharing new details about victims and an injured worker.
- Eight people died and seven have been identified.
- Eighteen were injured, including four firefighters.

## Summary

The latest details concern the victims’ families and the people injured in Wednesday evening’s collapse of a three-storey building in Flatbush, Brooklyn. One victim’s brother described the distress of his widow, who is expecting a baby and has a four-year-old son; a 29-year-old construction worker injured in the collapse is in hospital and reportedly “not doing well”.

Eight people died and seven have been identified: cousins Nicole Daniela Rodriguez, 9, and Kevin Santiago Reyes Gonzalez, 10; Gabriel Siguencia, 22; Mamadu Barry, 23; Edgar Santiago Sapón Gutierrez, 26; José Luis Caguana, 26; and Juan Daniel Salvada Guzman, 31. The eighth victim was an unidentified 35-year-old man. Eighteen people were injured, including four firefighters, and one person was in critical condition; two of the six adult victims were construction workers at the site.

## Coverage

- [Daily Mail: Seven victims of Brooklyn building collapse identified, aged nine to 31](https://www.dailymail.com/news/article-16288399/brooklyn-building-collapse-nyc-victims-identified.html?ns_mchannel=rss&ns_campaign=1490&ito=1490)
- [New York Times: What We Know About the Victims of the Brooklyn Building Collapse](https://www.nytimes.com/2026/11/12/nyregion/brooklyn-building-collapse-victims.html)

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