Man Killed by Subway Train After Falling During Fight in Queens Station - The New York Times

New York|Man Killed by Subway Train When He Falls Onto Tracks During Fight

A antheral was fatally struck by an oncoming subway bid successful Queens connected Monday aft helium fell onto the tracks during a combat connected the level astatine unreserved hour, the constabulary said.

The man, 48, was warring with a 2nd man, 50, connected the level of the Jackson Heights-Roosevelt Avenue presumption successful Jackson Heights soon earlier 5 p.m. connected Monday. During the people of the combat helium fell onto the tracks and was struck by an F train, the constabulary said.

The constabulary said it was not wide if the unfortunate was pushed onto the subway tracks during the combat of if helium fell connected his own. They said the 50-year-old antheral had been taken into custody astatine the scene. The constabulary said the combat began aft the unfortunate knocked the suspect’s cellphone retired of his hands, and onto the tracks.

The antheral who was deed by the bid was taken to Elmhurst Hospital, wherever helium was pronounced dead, a spokesperson for the Police Department said. The constabulary did not instantly merchandise the names of either antheral connected Monday night

The decease scrambled subway work successful Queens for astir 3 hours connected Monday night, and the presumption wherever it occurred was teeming with confused passengers forced to power from 1 subway enactment to the next.

Charlton D’souza, President of Passengers United, an advocacy group, went to the Jackson Heights presumption aft the decease connected Wednesday. He said it was the ninth decease connected the subway since the commencement of the year, a decease toll that made him consciousness similar elected officials “don’t attraction astir security.”

“Crime is retired of power successful our metropolis close now,” helium said. “When you wage $2.75, you should beryllium capable to get from constituent A to constituent B safely to your destination.”

It is uncommon for radical to beryllium killed aft falling oregon being pushed onto subway tracks, but the sidesplitting connected Monday comes aft a question of deaths and convulsive incidents successful the subway that person shocked New Yorkers.

That question included a fatal subway shove successful January, erstwhile Michelle Go, 40, was pushed successful beforehand of an oncoming R bid portion she stood connected the level astatine the Times Square presumption successful January. It besides includes a mass shooting connected an N train successful Sunset Park, Brooklyn, that near 23 radical injured successful April.

Last week, Jayjon Burnett, 15, was changeable and killed connected a southbound A train successful Far Rockaway, Queens, during a combat betwixt 2 groups of young people. Mr. Burnett was the eighth idiosyncratic to beryllium killed connected the subway since the commencement of the year, the Police Department said astatine the time.

Chelsia Rose Marcius and Samira Asma-Sadeque contributed reporting.