A 44-year-old man and 63-year-old woman were killed by the New York City subway after “she fell onto the tracks and he tried to save her before getting trapped between the car and the platform” – how FDNY says cardiac arrest was reported
- The fatal incident occurred Tuesday morning at the 6th and 14th Street station in Lower Manhattan
- Police are investigating a theory that the woman fell and the man tried to get her out of harm’s way
- Mayor Eric Adams was on the scene not long after the tragic incident to say an investigation is ongoing but no crime is suspected
- Criminal incidents on the New York subway are at an all-time high
Two people were hit by a subway train in Lower Manhattan on Tuesday morning.
A 44-year-old man from Long Island and a 63-year-old woman from Brooklyn were fatally struck by an L train at the 6th Avenue and 14th Street station in Chelsea around 10:30 a.m., according to New York City Police Department.
Police are investigating the possibility that the man was a Good Samaritan who fell onto the tracks after trying to catch the woman when she was in danger.
NYPD officers carry the body of a victim from the 6th Avenue and 14th Street station
NYPD officers remove the bodies of two victims. A middle-aged man and woman were killed by an L train around 10:30 a.m. Tuesday morning
The woman was reportedly found under the train and the man was squeezed into a space between the train and the platform around the sixth or seventh carriage.
Investigators say the woman may have fallen between the subway cars when the train was stopped and the man went down to try to save her.
After landing on the tracks, the man tried to climb back onto the platform before the train departed but was knocked out, the New York Daily News reported.
The New York City Fire Department reported receiving a call that a person on the tracks had gone into cardiac arrest.
Witnesses told responding officers they did not see anyone being pushed off the platform. Crime is not currently suspected in the fatal incident.
L train services were suspended for hours in both directions over the Christmas period following the tragedy
An investigation is ongoing, but no crime is suspected at this time, according to Mayor Eric Adams, who arrived at the scene shortly after the incident
Not long after the incident, which delayed L trains in both directions for hours, Mayor Eric Adams was on the scene.
Adams said he took the 1 train to 96th Street and inspected the work the city, MTA and police officers are doing each day to improve the city’s ailing transportation system.
“It looks like it’s not a crime,” Adams told Eyewitness News, adding that authorities are in the process of conducting a “more thorough investigation.”
He said officers will “stitch everything together” and find out exactly what happened, but preliminary reports suggest foul play was not involved in the tragic pre-Christmas incident.