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Cops Believe Florida Man Fatally Struck By Subway Was Chasing Dropped Cash
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Ben Yakas
Published Apr 5, 2013
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Yesterday morning, a 23-year-old Florida man was fatally struck by a train on the Upper West Side. Bobby Legrand Guin was struck by a northbound local A train at the Cathedral Parkway-110th Street station around 5:15 a.m. Thursday morning. Police now say they believe he had dropped a wad of $50 and $20 bills onto the tracks and had jumped down to retrieve them when he was struck. “There was money on the tracks and in his hand,” a police source told the News.
Guin, who studied business at Florida State University and Northwest Florida State College, had recently moved to NYC for work, according to friend Joey Morphy. “He applied at countless business jobs. He moved to New York to have better chances. We were all rooting for him in our small town.”
Guin was the first of three people who were struck by trains between Thursday and Friday mornings: another man was fatally struck by a northbound E train at 7th Avenue and 53rd Street in Manhattan around 7:45 p.m. last night. FDNY adds that he apparently jumped in front of the train, and died at the scene. Then a 56-year-old person was struck by a train around 1:30 a.m. Friday at Fulton Street and Ralph Avenue; that person was taken to Kings County Hospital, but his or her condition is not known.
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