An MTA employee was caught making a shocking
announcement by stranded passengers after a high school boy jumped in front of
a train in New York.
'Some guy got killed! I hope the motherf***er
suffered!' the employee allegedly said.
The message seemed destined to a colleague,
but the words were overheard by the passengers of a train stuck at Grand
Central Terminal after the suicide on Monday.
The boy, a 16-year-old student at
$19,000-a-year Fordham Prep who has not been named, jumped in front of a
Metro-North train at Botanical Garden in the Bronx, not far from his school
Passengers sent texts and tweets to say how shocked they were by the MTA employee's words.
'Conductor on our train intercom hearing the news:
"Someone got killed! I hope the motherf***er
suffered." #metronoth #speechless,' Miriam Ward said on
Twitter. Passengers sent texts and tweets to say how shocked they were by the MTA employee's words.
'Such language and sentiment has no place on Metro-North
Railroad,' MTA spokeswoman Meredith Daniels told the New York Post. 'We are aware of these allegations and are
looking into them.'
Thousands of commuters were stranded at Grand
Central while police investigated the Botanical Garden stop as some trains were
delayed for more than an hour, NBC reported.
On January 18, Owen Kelly, a sophomore who
attended the same school, was struck and killed by a Metro-North train at
Philips Manor station in Sleepy Hollow. It is not known whether the two incidents were
connected.
The school was established in 1841 and has
around 950 teenage boys attending classes. As part of the curriculum, students
have to complete up to 70 hours of community service.
Classes at the school started later on
Tuesday following an early-morning faculty meeting.
Earlier this month, the school held a service
for Kelly.
An online obituary for him read: 'A sophomore
at Fordham Preparatory School in the Bronx, he was an honor student and member
of the junior varsity hockey team.
'He was a community volunteer and worked
during the summer at the Tarry Crest Swimming and Tennis Club and the Philipse
Manor Beach Club.
'He was a counselor-in-training at Camp
Shankitunk in Delhi, New York.'
***Eeya, one can only imagine what the young man was dealing with to make him do this to himself. Suicide is never the answer. The old and tired saying "when there is life there's hope" remains ever true. If you are struggling with anything please please please, talk to someone. Suicide is NEVER the answer. May his soul rest in peace.
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