A 57-year-old man was killed Monday after a shopping bag he was carrying became caught between the doors of a moving subway train in Brooklyn, police said.<\/p>\n
The incident happened just before 6 p.m. at the Utica Avenue station in Bedford-Stuyvesant on the A and C line, the NYPD said.<\/p>\n
Police said the man, identified as Yaw Boahene, of East Flatbush, was dragged onto the tracks after his bag got stuck between the doors of a northbound A train.<\/p>\n
Emergency responders pronounced him dead at the scene.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Authorities said there was no criminality involved, and the investigation remains ongoing.<\/p>\n
The MTA referred a request for comment to the NYPD.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A 57-year-old man was killed Monday after a shopping bag he was carrying became caught between the doors…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":361645,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[387,25,297,98,9,24,55,54,12,56,308,380,27,296,200],"class_list":["post-361644","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york-city","tag-app-public-safety","tag-app-top-stories","tag-app-traffic-and-transit","tag-brooklyn","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-new-york-city-headlines","tag-new-york-city-news","tag-news","tag-ny","tag-public-safety","tag-spectrum-news-staff","tag-top-stories","tag-traffic-and-transit","tag-vod"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/361644","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=361644"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/361644\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/361645"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=361644"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=361644"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=361644"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}