Young Woman Killed in Brooklyn Bridge Ship Crash Identified

Mexico mourns naval cadet killed in training ship

América Yamilet Sánchez, 20, was in the final year of her studies at the naval academy when she was killed.

— America Yamilet Sánchez used to send his parents photographs of the sea, ports and cities.

Authorities Identify 2 Cadets Who Died After Mexican Ship Struck Brooklyn Bridge

Mexican authorities have identified the two young cadets who died after the Mexican Navy training ship, Cuauhtémoc, collided with the Brooklyn Bridge in New York on Saturday night. They are América Yamilet Sánchez, from Xalapa, Veracruz, and Adal Jair Marcos, from Salina Cruz, Oaxaca. The governor of Veracruz, Rocío Nahle, said on May 18 that she “deeply regrets the death” of Sánchez, in a message posted on the social media platform X. “All my l…

XALAPA, Mexico — América Yamilet Sánchez used to send her parents photographs of the sea, ports, and cities. But on Monday night, the family received her body in a coffin. The 20-year-old was one of two victims when a Mexican ship collided with the Brooklyn Bridge in New York.

Both were young enthusiasts, disciplined, intelligent and workers who fulfilled one of their dreams of life: to travel within the Cuauhtémoc School Ship, that dream that would travel 15 countries in 254 days. A voyage in the seas that very few in the world can aspire to. And yet, America Yamilet Sanchez, 20, originally from Xalapa, Veracruz, and Adal Jair Marcos, 22, from San Mateo del Mar, Oaxaca, succeeded. Their deaths, after crashing the shi…

The fatalities that occurred last weekend when a Mexican sailing ship collided with the Brooklyn Bridge in New York, appear to be two young men in their twenties. They are América Sánchez (20) and Adal Jair Maldonado Marcos (23).