A 57-year-old man was killed in Brooklyn Monday evening after his bag reportedly became trapped in closing subway doors, dragging him beneath the train.
After a 911 call, Yaw Boahene was found "unconscious and unresponsive" on the tracks of a northbound A train at the Utica Avenue station in Brooklyn's Bedford-Stuyvesant neighborhood shortly after 6 p.m., according to the New York Police Department.
Responding paramedics pronounced Boahene dead, and an investigation has been launched into the cause of his death.
Boahene, of Brooklyn, was exiting a train at around 6 p.m. when his shopping bag got stuck in the doors, Grand Central Station.
Authorities initially believed Alatorre's clothing or a bag had become caught in the train doors, but later said that was not the case, The Times reported.