{"id":360594,"date":"2026-09-30T08:22:33","date_gmt":"2026-09-30T08:22:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/360594\/"},"modified":"2026-09-30T08:22:33","modified_gmt":"2026-09-30T08:22:33","slug":"brooklyn-subway-rider-dragged-to-death-after-bag-caught-in-a-train-doors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/360594\/","title":{"rendered":"Brooklyn subway rider dragged to death after bag caught in A train doors"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/gettyimages-1465698826-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"764\" height=\"432\" loading=\"eager\" fetchpriority=\"high\" data-v-653d32e2=\"\"\/> article <\/p>\n<p data-v-653d32e2=\"\">The A train New York subway line, New York City, USA. (Photo by: Alex Segre\/UCG\/Universal Images Group via Getty Images) <\/p>\n<p data-v-94395e58=\"\">NEW YORK &#8211; A New York City subway rider died after he was dragged away from the platform when a bag he was carrying got stuck in the doors of an A train in Brooklyn, sources tell FOX 5 NY.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p original-article-post=\"\" origination_station=\"WNYW\" data-v-ec26887a=\"\" data-v-94395e58=\"\">What we know:<\/p>\n<p data-v-94395e58=\"\">The NYPD said officers responded to a 911 call at the Utica Avenue station in Bedford-Stuyvesant, Brooklyn, just after 6 p.m. Monday.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p data-v-94395e58=\"\">Officers found a 57-year-old man unconscious and unresponsive on the roadbed, the area next to the tracks, on the westbound A train platform.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p data-v-94395e58=\"\">The man, identified as Yaw Boahene, was pronounced dead at the scene by EMS.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p original-article-post=\"\" origination_station=\"WNYW\" data-v-ec26887a=\"\" data-v-94395e58=\"\">Dig deeper:<\/p>\n<p data-v-94395e58=\"\">According to FOX 5 NY sources, Boahene was carrying a shopping bag that got caught in the closing doors of a train.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p data-v-94395e58=\"\">Boahene began striking the door with his cane and was pulled onto the roadbed.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p original-article-post=\"\" origination_station=\"WNYW\" data-v-ec26887a=\"\" data-v-94395e58=\"\">What&#8217;s next:<\/p>\n<p data-v-94395e58=\"\">The incident remains under investigation, according to the NYPD.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"group-source-paragraph\" data-v-4fbf7207=\"\">The Source: This story was written with information from the NYPD&#8217;s Office of the Deputy Commissioner, Public Information (DCPI), and FOX 5 New York sources.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>    <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox5ny.com\/tag\/us\/ny\/nyc\/brooklyn\" class=\"tags-tag\" data-v-94395e58=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Brooklyn<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox5ny.com\/tag\/us\/ny\/nyc\/brooklyn\/bedford-stuyvesant\" class=\"tags-tag\" data-v-94395e58=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Bedford-Stuyvesant<\/a> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"article The A train New York subway line, New York City, USA. (Photo by: Alex Segre\/UCG\/Universal Images Group&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":360595,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[4987,98,100,99,9,24,12,56,63,618],"class_list":["post-360594","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-brooklyn","tag-bedford-stuyvesant","tag-brooklyn","tag-brooklyn-headlines","tag-brooklyn-news","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-news","tag-ny","tag-nyc","tag-us"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/360594","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=360594"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/360594\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/360595"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=360594"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=360594"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=360594"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}