A 17-year-old boy in the Bronx was found dead with burns on his body on the northbound 6 train tracks early Tuesday, police said.
A 911 call led police to an unconscious teen inside the Whitlock Avenue Train Station in Foxhurst near Lowell St. around 2:30 a.m., cops said.
The boy had burn marks on his torso and paramedics declared him dead at the scene. Medical Examiners [!] carried the body out of the Foxhurst train station. His identity and cause of death were not immediately known.
... As of last Wednesday, 44 people have been killed by train this year — either maliciously or by taking their own lives. A man lost his toes early Monday after a pal pushed him into an oncoming train in Chelsea.
What are the odds that the NYPD has alerted all its detectives to this unwitnessed violent death, ordering them to use their CI's (confidential informants) who may have "heard something" about an early morning attack that ended in this death? My opinion: zero.
More opinion: the Transit Bureau of the NYPD has established a record of ensuring that mysterious violent deaths are never treated as possible homicides.
More opinion: based on my daily reading of news sites, how many of those 44 killings were even mentioned by any news media. My estimate: fewer than one-half. If the media is not informed of the death by the MTA or the NYPD they will not report it.
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Why Do So Many "Accidents" Occur When there are so few Witnesses?
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