{"id":359685,"date":"2026-09-29T11:50:10","date_gmt":"2026-09-29T11:50:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/359685\/"},"modified":"2026-09-29T11:50:10","modified_gmt":"2026-09-29T11:50:10","slug":"man-dragged-to-death-after-bag-caught-in-doors-of-brooklyn-a-train-in-new-york-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/359685\/","title":{"rendered":"Man dragged to death after bag caught in doors of Brooklyn A train in New York"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Phil Taitt reports from Bedford Stuyvesant.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Phil Taitt Image\" class=\"hsDdd NDJZt sJeUN IJwXl \" data-testid=\"prism-image\" draggable=\"false\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/1790682610_719_15827483_Phil_Taitt_160x200.jpg\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Tuesday, September 29, 2026 11:23AM<\/p>\n<p>Follow ABC7 on Google<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao MvWXB TjIXL aGjvy ebVHC \">A man was killed after being dragged by a train at a Brooklyn subway station Monday evening when his bag became caught in closing train doors, according to authorities.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">The fatal incident happened just before 5:50 p.m. at the Utica Avenue station, near Fulton Street in Bedford-Stuyvesant.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">Investigators said the man&#8217;s bag became trapped in the doors of a southbound A train as it was preparing to leave the station. It wasn&#8217;t immediately clear if he was getting on or off the train at the time.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">As the train pulled away, the man &#8212; who is said to be in his 50s &#8212; was dragged along the platform and struck a pole, suffering severe trauma. He was pronounced dead at the scene.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">The victim&#8217;s identity was not immediately released.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC eTIW sUzSN \">The Metropolitan Transportation Authority is investigating the circumstances surrounding the incident and how the rider became caught in the train doors.<\/p>\n<p>Copyright \u00a9 2026 KGO-TV. All Rights Reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Phil Taitt reports from Bedford Stuyvesant. Tuesday, September 29, 2026 11:23AM Follow ABC7 on Google A man was&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":359686,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[133806,9,56,63,65,64],"class_list":["post-359685","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york-city","tag-133806","tag-new-york","tag-ny","tag-nyc","tag-nyc-headlines","tag-nyc-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/359685","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=359685"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/359685\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/359686"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=359685"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=359685"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=359685"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}