{"id":359795,"date":"2026-09-29T14:30:08","date_gmt":"2026-09-29T14:30:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/359795\/"},"modified":"2026-09-29T14:30:08","modified_gmt":"2026-09-29T14:30:08","slug":"man-exiting-brooklyn-subway-train-dragged-to-death-when-bag-caught-in-door","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/359795\/","title":{"rendered":"Man exiting Brooklyn subway train dragged to death when bag caught in door"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A man exiting a Brooklyn subway train was dragged to his death when his bag got caught in the door and he fell onto the tracks, <a href=\"https:\/\/compstat.nypdonline.org\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">police<\/a> said Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>Yaw Boahene was getting off a rush-hour A train at the Utica Ave. station in Bedford-Stuyvesant when his shopping bag got caught between the closing doors, cops said.<\/p>\n<p>As the train pulled out of the station about 6 p.m. Monday, Boahene, 49, was dragged down the platform, then fell between the train and the platform, police said. He died at the scene.<\/p>\n<p>Boahene lived in the Bronx, according to cops.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A man exiting a Brooklyn subway train was dragged to his death when his bag got caught in&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":359796,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[98,100,99,262,263,266,85,267,9,24,264,10,12,63,261,265,608],"class_list":["post-359795","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-brooklyn","tag-brooklyn","tag-brooklyn-headlines","tag-brooklyn-news","tag-city","tag-county","tag-crime-and-public-safety","tag-latest-headlines","tag-local-news","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-new-york-county","tag-new-york-news","tag-news","tag-nyc","tag-nyc-crime","tag-sub-county-region","tag-transportation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/359795","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=359795"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/359795\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/359796"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=359795"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=359795"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=359795"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}