The body of the sixth and final victim of the tragic collapse of the Francis Scott Key Bridge in Baltimore, Maryland, has now been recovered and identified.
The bridge collapse on March 26, caused by the container ship Dali losing power and colliding with a support column, shocked the world when six construction workers died.
While five of them were recovered and named, on Tuesday authorities recovered and identified the latest victim of the collapse, naming him as José Mynor López, 37, a construction worker from Baltimore who was working on the bridge when it collapsed.
“Today, José Mynor López, the sixth and final missing victim, was recovered,” Baltimore Mayor Brandon M. Scott said on X, formerly Twitter.
The joint task force made up of local and state police, the U.S. Coast Guard and other government agencies said Lopez’s family had been notified.
While five of them were recovered and named, on Tuesday authorities recovered and identified the latest victim of the collapse, naming him as 37-year-old José Mynor López (pictured).
Lopez was a construction worker from Baltimore who was working on the bridge when it collapsed.
The 1,000-foot Dali ship (pictured) had issued a distress call moments before the collision.
Maryland State Police said the recovery of the body was a “milestone” in recovery efforts.
Work to fully reopen the shipping channel would continue “as we close this chapter in this (recovery) effort,” Scott said.
The 1,000-foot Dali ship had issued a mayday call moments before the collision, giving police time to stop traffic toward the bridge, likely saving lives.
But an eight-man construction crew repairing potholes in the bridge couldn’t arrive in time and fell with tons of concrete and twisted steel into the Patapsco River.
The other victims were named in the days and weeks after the collapse.
Miguel Ángel Luna González, 49, was described as a loving father and an exceptional person.
Workers cut up stolen parts of the Key Bridge for recycling after the freighter Dali crashed and collapsed at the Patapsco River entrance to the Port of Baltimore.
The Dali Freighter Bridge is seen through the remains of the Key Bridge
A memorial site honoring the construction workers who lost their lives in the Francis Scott Key Bridge collapse sits on the side of the road near the Fort Armistead Park lock.
He had been living in the United States for 19 years, after moving from El Salvador.
Gustavo Torres, executive director of CASA, which describes itself as a “national immigrant mobilization powerhouse,” previously said of González: “He really wanted to be a small business owner, and part of his passion was to make a contribution.” to the community”. .’
Maynor Yassir Suazo Sandoval, for his part, arrived from Honduras 17 years ago and rested for the last time on April 20, a week before his 39th birthday. He left a wife and two children.
Alejandro Hernández Fuentes was reportedly one of the first victims identified after the bridge collapse.
He left Mexico 15 years ago and joined his mother and sister in the United States and was living in Baltimore at the time of his death.
Birds rest on the remains of the Key Bridge after the Dalí freighter collided and collapsed
Miguel Ángel Luna González
Alejandro Hernández Fuentes, Baltimore bridge worker
Maynor Yassir Suazo Sandoval of Honduras
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Dorlian Ronial Castillo Cabrera
Dorlian Ronial Castillo Cabrera, 26, was originally from Guatemala and was the second youngest of the six victims.
The youngest was Carlos Daniel Hernández, who was only 24 years old. During a visit to Baltimore after the collapse, President Joe Biden read a text Hernandez sent to his girlfriend before her death.
He wrote: “We just poured cement and are waiting for it to dry.”
Biden said in response to Hernandez’s text messages: “We will not rest, as Carlos said, until the cement has dried on the entirety of a new bridge, a new bridge.”
The container ship Dali has been sitting in the rubble since the collapse, but crews plan to refloat and remove it, allowing more shipping traffic to resume through the Port of Baltimore.
Officials hope to remove it by May 10, according to a news release from the Port of Baltimore.
