NEW YORK — Police say a man getting off a New York City subway train has been dragged to his death, and authorities are investigating how it happened.
It happened shortly before 7 p.m. Monday as an F train left the Union Turnpike-Kew Gardens station in Queens.
The New York Police Department says 51-year-old Queens resident Edward Leonard was found unconscious and unresponsive when officers responded to a 911 call.
Police say Leonard was dragged and struck his head on the platform. Emergency crews rushed him to a nearby hospital, where he was pronounced dead.