At least seven people were killed Tuesday when an Amtrak train traveling between Washington, D.C., and New York City derailed in Philadelphia.
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Here's what we know about those who lost their lives in the crash.
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Midshipman Justin Zemser, 20
U.S. Naval Academy Midshipman Justin Zemser was traveling home to Rockaway Beach in New York on Amtrak Northeast Regional Train 188 when the crash occurred.
The Naval Academy said it was "deeply saddened" to report the news, but did not release Zemser's name. His mother, Susan Zemser, confirmed to ABC News that her only son had been killed in the derailment.
Zemser was in his second year at the Naval Academy after having graduated in 2013 from Beach Channel High School, where he served as student government president, according to NavySports.com.
The Jewish student had recently traveled to Israel with Naval Academy classmates for a spring break holiday.
Zemser was also a talented football player, having been profiled by ESPN as a possible college recruit. The wide-receiver captained his high school team in 2011 and 2012. He was also a first year member of the Navy's Sprint Football team where he played under jersey No. 83.
Jim Gaines, 48
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Associated Press employee Jim Gaines was returning home to Plainsboro, New Jersey, when the Amtrak train crashed, the news agency announced Monday.
The video software engineer and father of two had been in Washington, D.C., for meetings.
Gaines had worked for the AP since 1998 and was described by the company as "a key factor in nearly all of the news agency's video initiatives, including a service providing live video to hundreds of clients worldwide."
He was awarded the AP's "Geek of the Month" prize in May 2012 for his "tireless dedication and contagious passion" to technological innovation, according to the news agency, and was a member of a team that won the AP Chairman's Prize in 2006 for developing its online video network.
Gaines is survived by his wife, Jacqueline, and two children, 16-year-old Oliver and 11-year-old Anushka.
Missing: Rachel Jacobs, 39
Rachel Jacobs, the chief executive officer of Philadelphia-based online learning company ApprenNet, was reported missing by her company after the crash.
“We called, texted and emailed her right when crash happened, because we knew she was on the train,” ApprenNet COO Emily Foote told Philly Mag. “I went to the hospitals last night and she wasn’t in any of them. I went to the churches and schools where people are being sheltered, and we still can’t find her.”
Jacobs, 39, joined the company in March of this year but was still commuting between Philadelphia and her home in Manhattan, according to an April interview she did with Technically Philly.
She is married and has an infant son.
“We are just frantic waiting to hear news from my daughter,” her mother Gilda Jacobs posted told the New York Daily News.
She had previously served as vice president of strategy and business development for Ascend Learning, according to ApprenNet.
The Detroit-native received her M.B.A. from Columbia University's Business School, and attended Swarthmore College in Pennsylvania.
She also founded Detroit Nation, a nonprofit dedicated to helping start-up companies in her hometown.
This is a developing story and more information will be added as it becomes available.
SOURCE: BuzzFeed
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