New particulars emerge in NYC subway backpack demise – NBC New York

The person who died after his plastic bag acquired caught in a Brooklyn subway’s closing door might need refused to let it go, a legislation enforcement supply says, adding that video reveals him showing to nonetheless clutch it because the prepare drags him down the platform and right into a wall.

The person, in his 50s, died on the scene of Monday’s rush-hour accident on a Manhattan-bound A prepare on the Utica Avenue station. He fell and rolled onto the tracks after he hit the wall, however the supply says the prepare had already left the station and he wasn’t struck. His id has not been launched.

In response to the legislation enforcement supply, video reveals the person strolling to get off the prepare round 5:30 p.m. He has a cane in a single hand and carries a plastic bag within the different; the supply described it as the kind of plastic blue bag one would possibly get from a bodega. The doorways shut on the plastic bag.

Because the prepare begins to tug away, the person seems to proceed grabbing his bag, the supply says that video reveals, although a few of the footage is blocked by individuals strolling on the platform.

He begins to get dragged down the platform, apparently nonetheless holding the bag, the supply says of the video. Because the prepare accelerates out of the station, he will get dragged to the tip of the platform and collides with the wall earlier than rolling to the tracks. It wasn’t clear how briskly the prepare was shifting on the time of the collision.

Citizen video reveals a big emergency response on the scene.

Police haven’t launched the video from contained in the prepare station.

It additionally wasn’t clear if subway door sensors would have sensed such a skinny bag. The investigation is ongoing.