An unidentified straphanger fell to his death between Brooklyn train cars during a scuffle with someone who took his backpack early Tuesday, cops and sources said.<\/p>\n
The man realized he had left his bag on board a Manhattan-bound No. 3 train while getting off at the New Lots Avenue station at Livonia Avenue in East New York around 12:45 a.m. and quickly hopped back on, law enforcement sources said.<\/p>\n
When he spotted an apparent stranger with his bag, the two riders started fighting between cars, the sources said.<\/p>\n
The straphanger grappled with another man he caught holding his backpack \u2014 and fell to his death between cars during the scuffle, sources said. Robert Mecea for New York Post<\/p>\n
The victim fell onto the tracks during the fracas, according to the sources.<\/p>\n
First responders found him unconscious and unresponsive on the roadbed, and he was pronounced dead at the scene, police said.<\/p>\n
A black backpack and a black sneaker with white stripes could still be seen on the platform behind yellow crime scene tape as cops investigated.<\/p>\n
The unidentified man was pronounced dead on the scene at the East New York station, cops said. Robert Mecea for New York Post<\/p>\n
No arrests had been made several hours later. Robert Mecea for New York Post<\/p>\n
A person of interest was being interviewed Tuesday, but was being uncooperative, the sources said.<\/p>\n
No arrests have been made, and the investigation is ongoing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"An unidentified straphanger fell to his death between Brooklyn train cars during a scuffle with someone who took…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":236982,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[98,1015,57,9,56,63,65,64,8192,1686,1687,19147,58],"class_list":["post-236981","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york-city","tag-brooklyn","tag-deaths","tag-metro","tag-new-york","tag-ny","tag-nyc","tag-nyc-headlines","tag-nyc-news","tag-police-investigations","tag-subway-shoves","tag-subways","tag-trains","tag-us-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/236981","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=236981"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/236981\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/236982"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=236981"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=236981"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=236981"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}