Warning signs before the fall: Inside the investigation into the Flatbush collapse

As this Flatbush building stands sawed in half, the neighborhood around it feels like it's been split apart too. It's devastating. We're literally looking at a broken facade, there's stairwells, that's a front door. The city is now investigating what caused this residential building to collapse near Bedford and Flatbush Avenues Wednesday afternoon as neighbors grapple with the tragedy killing eight people, including two children. This has been a very dark Evening and morning for our city. We are mourning too many people who we love. Investigators say excavation work was underway at 1321 Flatbush Avenue when the neighboring building collapsed. Questions now mounting about the construction site next door. City records show it was permitted to build a three-story structure yet had 98 open HBD violations. What we're finding is just not good. I think both on some of the things we've seen on the construction and on the person who owned the home as well. The public advocate says investigators are putting the building's owner, Olufemi Falad, under a microscope. We found out that the owner of the property It was on our worst landlord watch list for a few years. Of course, this rescue operation is now a mission of recovery, though it will take a while to rebuild. And this community is trying everything they can to look forward. We're in the Flatbush neighborhood of Brooklyn tonight. Mike Lamourde, News 12. And tonight we now know the names and ages of the eight people who died in that collapse. We'll put them on the screen here. They range in age from as young as 9 and 10 years old to 31 years old. Police say that three of the victims were not residents of that Flatbush Avenue building.