(20 May 2025)
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Xalapa, Mexico – 20 May 2025
++NIGHT SHOTS++
1. Various of naval cadet killed when training ship collided with Brooklyn Bridge, América Yamilet Sánchez’s, coffin being moved into her home for wake
2. Various of people outside Sánchez’s home holding candles
3. Sánchez’s, Cosme Sánchez, father being comforted by friends and relatives
4. People outside Sánchez’s home hugging and comforting each other
5. SOUNDBITE (Spanish) Cosme Sánchez, father of América Yamilet Sánchez:
"(My daughter) is the pride of all of Mexico, for the whole world. Thank you all for being here with us. I am very proud of my daughter América Yamilet. I am devastated, but we are going to move forward. My family is devastated, but we are going to move forward."
6. Woman handing out white roses to mourners
7. People outside Sánchez’s home
8. Altar with flowers and candles around pictures of Sánchez
9. Various of Cosme Sánchez hugging her mother next to her coffin
10. Man holding photo of Sánchez
STORYLINE:
Dozens of people gathered overnight in the street where one of the Mexican naval cadets who died when their training vessel hit the Brooklyn Bridge lived.
América Yamilet Sánchez, 20, was in the final year of her studies at the naval academy when she was killed aboard the naval teaching vessel Cuauhtemoc on Saturday.
A small crowd gathered near her home in the early hours of Tuesday, many holding white roses and their cell phones to illuminate the way for the hearse carrying her body.
Naval officers accompanied her arrival around midnight at her home in Veracruz’s state capital Xalapa.
Sánchez was the pride of her family, a standout student and athlete, who had already distinguished herself — scoring top marks in her naval systems engineering studies.
She was a squadron leader and among those selected for the special group that accompanied President Claudia Sheinbaum at her inauguration.
"My family is devastated, but we are going to move forward. My daughter was an example to everyone. She is going to be remembered. She deserved the best," Cosme Sánchez said, holding a photograph of his daughter in her dress uniform.
At the naval academy she won medals and represented the institution nationally in open water swimming competitions.
Her most recent honor was being awarded a place aboard the Cuauhtemoc, which planned to visit 22 ports in 15 countries.
On Saturday, she sent her parents photos, told them she loved them and spoke excitedly of the ship’s next stop: Iceland.
Sánchez was high in one of the Cuauhtemoc’s three masts Saturday night when it slid out of its dock in New York, authorities told her family.
It’s a ceremonial practice to greet and pay respects entering and leaving ports.
U.S. investigators laid out a timeline Monday showing the Cuauhtemoc was underway for less than 5 minutes before its masts crashed into the historic span, and radio calls indicating it was in distress went out only 45 seconds before the deadly collision.
The Brooklyn Bridge escaped major damage but at least 19 of the ship’s 277 sailors needed medical treatment, according to officials.
The body of the other sailor killed, 23-year-old Adal Jair Maldonado Marcos, was also returned to Mexico on Monday.
AP video shot by Iván Sánchez.
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