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NEW YORK -- A runner in the Brooklyn Half Marathon died after crossing the finish line Saturday and several other people were hospitalized.

Just after 9:30 a.m. Saturday, about two and a half hours after the 13.1 mile race started, 32-year-old David Reichman collapsed at the finish line.

The NYPD says the Brooklyn man was unresponsive when they arrived. Medics rushed him to Coney Island Hospital, where he died.

Ashley Scott, a boardwalk vendor, says she was just setting up when it all happened.

"Everybody kind of like ran and just kind of like, you know how they just dome a situation, you couldn't really see much. But there was a kind of like a big roar of whispers like, what is going on?" she said. "It's very bizarre to think of people that young having complications like that."

The FDNY says a total of 16 people were taken to the hospital. Five were reported to have serious injuries, and 12 had non-life-threatening or minor injuries. One runner refused medical treatment.