“He was our only brother,” she said, describing a family now struggling to cope without him.
A cousin, Muhammad Usman, said Abdul had simply told relatives he was heading out to see friends and expected to return soon. Instead, the teenager never made it home.
Family members remembered Abdul as compassionate and hardworking. He helped feed homeless people and had talked about eventually attending business school and becoming a businessman.
Algahiem, meanwhile, had only recently graduated from Rachel Carson High School. His uncle, Amin Algahiem, said the teenager and his friends had gone out for dinner at a Yemeni cafe in Bay Ridge before beginning their trip home.
The 18-year-old hoped to study engineering at Brooklyn College. His parents and siblings were vacationing in Egypt when the deadly crash occurred, leaving relatives overseas devastated.
