{"id":214966,"date":"2026-04-30T02:22:19","date_gmt":"2026-04-30T02:22:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/214966\/"},"modified":"2026-04-30T02:22:19","modified_gmt":"2026-04-30T02:22:19","slug":"man-fatally-struck-by-7-train-in-jackson-heights-subway-station-criminality-is-not-suspected-nypd-qns","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/214966\/","title":{"rendered":"Man fatally struck by 7 train in Jackson Heights subway station, criminality is not suspected: NYPD \u2013 QNS"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\t<img width=\"392\" height=\"234\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/download.jpg\" class=\"crop-center wp-post-image\" alt=\"7 train\" decoding=\"async\" fetchpriority=\"high\"\/>\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>A 60-year-old man was struck and killed by a Manhattan-bound 7 train in Jackson Heights. <\/p>\n<p>Photo courtesy of the MTA<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<p>\t&#13;<\/p>\n<p>A 60-year-old man was struck and killed by a 7 train at the 90th Street-Elmhurst Avenue subway station in <a href=\"https:\/\/qns.com\/neighborhoods\/jackson-heights\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Jackson Heights<\/a> on Tuesday, April 28, in an apparent suicide. <\/p>\n<p>The man jumped in front of a Manhattan-bound subway at 12:25 p.m., and the train operator was unable to stop in time before striking the individual, who was not a victim of a crime, an NYPD spokeswoman said Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/qns.com\/?attachment_id=608469\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-608469 nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-608469\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/OIP-2.webp.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"474\" height=\"404\"\/><\/a>Photo courtesy of the MTA<\/p>\n<p>Police from the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nyc.gov\/site\/nypd\/bureaus\/patrol\/precincts\/115th-precinct.page\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">115th Precinct<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nyc.gov\/site\/nypd\/bureaus\/transit-housing\/transit-district-20.page\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Transit District 20<\/a> responded to the location and had power shut down so first responders could remove the man from the track bed.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>EMS pronounced him dead at the scene, and his identity is pending proper family notification. Service resumed within an hour. The investigation remains ongoing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A 60-year-old man was struck and killed by a Manhattan-bound 7 train in Jackson Heights. Photo courtesy of&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":214967,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[32886,10519,84848,128,33730,141,9,24,63,103,340,129,131,130,54294],"class_list":["post-214966","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-the-bronx","tag-115th-precinct","tag-7-train","tag-apparent-suicide","tag-bronx","tag-fatal-collision","tag-mta","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc","tag-nypd","tag-suicide","tag-the-bronx","tag-the-bronx-headlines","tag-the-bronx-news","tag-transit-district-20"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/214966","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=214966"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/214966\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/214967"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=214966"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=214966"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=214966"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}