Georgia authorities said Sunday they are investigating the “catastrophic failure” of a dock gangway that collapsed and killed seven people on an island off the state's Atlantic seacoast, where crowds gathered for a celebration by the island’s tiny Gullah-Geechee community of Black slave descendants.

An annual cultural festival was in full swing over the weekend on Sapelo Island in McIntosh County, Georgia, when the celebration turned to tragedy

We’re now learning the identities of the victims killed in Saturday’s fatal Marsh Landing Dock collapse on Sapelo Island, according to the McIntosh County Coroner. McIntosh County Coroner Melvin Amerson said that the deceased have been identified as 75-year-old Jacqueline Crews Carter of Jacksonville;