A suspect who allegedly pushed a teenager into the path of a nearby Metro subway train in downtown Los Angeles Wednesday and then got into an altercation with construction workers nearby suffered a medical emergency while being detained and died at a hospital.
According to police, a 14-year-old boy waiting for a train was pushed by the suspect onto the tracks at Metro’s Pershing Square station at Fifth and Hill streets around 9:15 a.m. A subway train was approaching the station and its arrival was “imminent,” according to Los Angeles Police Department Sgt. Meghan Aguilar.
The train was less than a minute outside the station when the boy was pushed, Aguilar said.
The teen, aided by bystanders, was able to get off the tracks before the train arrived, police said. He suffered only a minor injury and was not taken to a hospital.
