PICTURED: Brooklyn Straphanger, who died after his foot was caught between the train and the platform before being pulled onto the tracks
- A passenger on the Q train in Brooklyn was trapped in the door as he exited the train, dragging him onto the tracks along the station
- Marcus Bryant, 37, was pronounced dead early Thursday morning
- In January, a woman was killed after a man pushed her onto the tracks at a Times Square train station
The straphanger, who died Thursday after his foot got caught in the door of a Brooklyn subway train, dragging him across the platform and onto the tracks, has been identified.
Marcus Bryant, 37, was exiting a northbound Q train at the Avenue M stop in Brooklyn around 11:50 p.m. Wednesday when his foot was trapped between the train and the platform, according to Richard Davey, president of NYC Transit.
He was dragged screaming across the platform by the moving train and then thrown onto the tracks where another train was pulling in. He was struck by the approaching train.
Bryant, 37, got off a train at the Avenue M station in Brooklyn on Wednesday when his foot got stuck, resulting in his death.
Bryant was then taken by paramedics to Maimonides Medical Center, where he died early Thursday morning.
The MTA has yet to determine how Bryant died and whether it was the impact of the first or second train.
“We will take the facts where they take us and address any issues that we find,” Davey said.
Davey spoke from Midwood Station Thursday, where he said there was a witness and MTA staff were being questioned for an investigation.
“We have not determined their guilt, but they are out of order pending investigation,” Davey said.
The tragic incident is the latest subway-related death in New York City.
MTA officers can be seen at the scene of the incident at the Avenue M stop in Brooklyn
Avenue M subway station in Midwood, Brooklyn where Marcus Bryant died in a horrific subway accident.
According to the MTA’s Track Trespassing Task Force report, trespassing on the tracks has steadily increased in recent years, leading to greater risks of injury and death.
According to the report, three-fourths of track interventions are voluntary, and the task force also found 29 camps in subway tunnels that some New Yorkers use as shelters.
Transit crime has increased 53.6 percent since that time last year — a number that underscores just how unsafe the subway has become.