A man was killed by a Q train at the Times Square-42nd St. station late Friday night.
A witness reported that the man was crouching close to the edge of the platform for the uptown Q express when he unexpectedly leaped in the path of an approaching train.
It happened at 10:28 p.m., according to police.
“He squatted. I saw him jump,” Chaz Rodriguez, 35, a bartender from Queens, told a Daily News reporter who happened to have been on that subway.
“He went in front of the train,” Rodriguez said. “He was cut in half. I was standing right there. Nobody pushed him.”
The individual had been crouching midway along the platform before he hurled himself in front of the train, which halted after roughly half of its cars had passed over him.
From what could be seen, he was well dressed, sporting a gold-link bracelet on his wrist and a dress shirt.
A police spokesperson confirmed that the man, as yet unidentified, jumped in front of the subway and was pronounced dead at the scene.
The Q train was held in the station as police and firefighters worked to remove the man’s body from underneath it.
Originally Published: October 11, 2025 at 12:06 AM EDT
