Kids in New York keep dying while ‘subway surfing’ on top of trains. Can they be stopped?

NEW YORK (AP) — Ka’Von Wooden loved trains. The 15-year-old had an encyclopedic knowledge of New York City’s subway system and dreamed of becoming a train operator.

Instead, on a December morning in 2022, Ka’Von died after he climbed to the roof of a moving J train in Brooklyn and then fell onto the tracks as it headed onto the Williamsburg Bridge.

This September 2021 photo shows Ka’Von Wooden who died in December 2022 while subway surfing a J line subway train in the Brooklyn borough of New York. Wooden was 15 years old. (Y’Vonda Maxwell via AP)

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