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Yaw Boahene, a 57-year-old man from Brooklyn, died after his shopping bag got stuck between closing subway train doors on Monday evening in New York City. As he tried to free his bag, he was dragged onto the tracks and run over by the departing train. Video footage shows Boahene holding a cane while attempting to retrieve his trapped belongings before falling onto the tracks. The city’s medical examiner will determine the cause of death, with police investigating whether his foot was also caught in the doors. This incident is one of several rare but fatal accidents involving passengers being dragged by subway trains due to clothing or bags getting stuck in closing doors.
Written locally by qwen2.5:14b on 2026-09-29,
using this article's own text rather than the other coverage of the
same event (that is the story summary below).
Story summary
On Monday evening around 6 p.m., Yaw Boahene, 57, of Brooklyn, died after his shopping bag got trapped between closing doors of a northbound A-train as he was exiting the Utica Avenue station in Bedford-Stuyvesant, Brooklyn. Witnesses reported seeing him dragged backward by the train before falling onto the tracks and being struck by it. Emergency responders declared Boahene dead at the scene, with no criminality suspected. This incident is one of several rare but deadly subway accidents that have occurred recently in New York City, including an October 2022 case where a man died after his bag got caught in train doors.
Written for “NYC Subway Backpack Tragedy” on 2026-10-05,
grounded in this article and the 6 other(s) covering the same event.
A 57-year-old man was killed after a shopping bag became trapped in the doors of a New York City subway train, dragging him onto the tracks as the train pulled away from a Brooklyn station, police said.
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Police said Yaw Boahene, of Brooklyn, was exiting the train around 6 p.m. Monday when his bag got caught in the closing doors.
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He was then pulled onto the tracks and run over as the train departed the station.
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Officers responding to the incident found Boahene unconscious and unresponsive on the tracks.
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He was pronounced dead at the scene.
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According to NBC 4 New York, video footage shows a man holding a cane and the bag that was eventually caught.
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Once the doors closed on his bag, Boahene then tries to free his belongings as he is dragged with the departing train, eventually hitting the wall and rolling onto the tracks.
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The outlet said police are also investigating whether Boahene’s foot was caught between the train and the platform during the incident.
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Police said no criminality is suspected.
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The city’s medical examiner will determine Boahene’s cause of death, and an investigation into the incident remains underway.
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The incident is the latest in a handful of rare but sometimes deadly accidents involving passengers being dragged by subway trains.
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In October 2022, a 20-year-old New Jersey man was killed at the Columbus Circle station in Manhattan after his clothing or backpack became caught in the doors of a southbound No. 1 train as he attempted to board.
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He was dragged along the platform onto the tracks.
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Six years earlier, 51-year-old Edward Leonard was killed while getting off an F train at the Union Turnpike-Kew Gardens station in Queens.
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Police said at the time that his clothing may have become caught in the doors before he was dragged along the platform and struck his head.
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