3 additional victims of 9/11 terror attacks identified almost 24 years later

NEW YORK -- Twenty-four years after the September 11 terror attacks, the New York City Office of the Chief Medical Examiner on Thursday announced three new identifications of World Trade Center victims.

Ryan Fitzgerald of Floral Park, Barbara Keating of Palm Springs and an adult woman whose name is being withheld at the request of her family are the 1651st, 1652nd and 1653rd victims positively identified through DNA analysis.

The tally represents little more than half of the 2,753 people killed at the World Trade Center on 9/11.

The medical examiner's office has never stopped testing remains recovered from the wreckage.

Fitzgerald was remembered in his obituary as a "man on the town" who had just found his own place in Manhattan working as a foreign currency trader at Fiduciary Trust in the South Tower.

Keating, 72 at the time of her death, was a breast cancer survivor was on American Airlines Flight 11 returning to California after visiting her grandchildren on the East Coast, according to her obituary.

The new identifications were made using advanced DNA technology and the testing of new samples turned over by relatives, according to OCME.

"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," said Mayor Eric Adams.

The three identifications are the latest new identifications of World Trade Center victims since 2024.Some1,100victims - 40% of those who died- remain unidentified.

"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," said Chief Medical Examiner Dr. Jason Graham.

(ABC News contributed to this report.)