Subway surfer nabbed in Queens days after boy's tragic Williamsburg Bridge death, police say
and fell under the train, which ran over and killed him, authorities say.
The 17-year-old in the Queensboro Plaza case, which happened around 10:15 p.m. Wednesday, wasn't hurt. Cops charged him with reckless endangerment after seeing him riding on the outside back platform of the last car as it pulled into the station, according to officials. They say the teen has no prior criminal history or transit summonses.second such death in the borough in less than 90 days.
Nazario, was on a Manhattan-bound J train shortly before 11 p.m. Monday when he fell, according to police. He died at the scene. His mother, Norma Nazario, said she thinks he got distracted or looked to one side and his head hit a beam, throwing him to the tracks. She also said her son had spent the day in Brooklyn with his girlfriend and was heading back home when he died."I don't wish this to any mother," Norma Nazario said, adding her son dreamed one day of joining the U.S. Marines.
She said she had never talked to her son about the dangers of subway surfing because she didn't even know it was a thing that teens had been doing. The mother blamed social media for driving the behavior in young people.
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