9/11 victim's remains identified nearly 17 years later
<p>The remains of a 26-year-old securities analyst from Montclair who worked on the 89th floor at the South Tower of the World Trade Center on 9/11 have been identified nearly 17 years after the attacks.</p>
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Jul 26, 2018, 10:05 AM
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The remains of a 26-year-old securities analyst from Montclair who worked on the 89th floor at the South Tower of the World Trade Center on 9/11 have been identified nearly 17 years after the attacks.
The New York City medical examiners' office on Wednesday identified the victim as Scott Michael Johnson.
Johnson was an employee at the investment banking company Keefe, Bruyette & Woods.
Johnson is the 1,642nd victim to be positively identified in the terror attacks in which 2,753 people were killed.
The medical examiner says he was identified through improved DNA re-testing of remains originally recovered in 2001.
It's the first new identification made since last August.
So far, about 40 percent of those who died have yet to have any remains identified.
AP wire services helped contribute to this report.
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