A mother and her 5-month-old daughter were killed after a boat capsized near Liberty Island late Saturday night, sending 14 people into the water, police said.<\/p>\n
The victims were identified as 27-year-old Sarah Sanchez and her daughter, Antonella Garcia.<\/p>\n
The boat overturned around 10:30 p.m. Saturday, according to police.<\/p>\n
Twelve other passengers fell into the water and were rescued. They are expected to recover.<\/p>\n
\u201cI saw three helicopters, two active boats on the water,\u201d said Madeleine Montero, who witnessed the first responders\u2019 rescue efforts.<\/p>\n
\u201cI saw a lot of ambulances, firefighters, and then I saw that there were boats here, and then people were just speaking that there was a mother and a child that needed to be rescued from the water and that they were found,\u201d Montero said.<\/p>\n
Police said the vessel’s captain, Manuel Hernandez, was arrested and charged with 13 counts of reckless endangerment.<\/p>\n
Police and the U.S. Coast Guard are conducting a joint investigation into whether the vessel was properly licensed and legally operating in the waters near Liberty Island.<\/p>\n
The investigation remains ongoing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A mother and her 5-month-old daughter were killed after a boat capsized near Liberty Island late Saturday night,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":317681,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[387,25,119456,75,84,83,9,24,12,63,308,27,200],"class_list":["post-317680","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-manhattan","tag-app-public-safety","tag-app-top-stories","tag-carly-haynes","tag-manhattan","tag-manhattan-headlines","tag-manhattan-news","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-news","tag-nyc","tag-public-safety","tag-top-stories","tag-vod"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/317680","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=317680"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/317680\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/317681"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=317680"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=317680"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=317680"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}