Teen struck and killed by train
Posted April 29th, 2008 by minortopics | via www.suburbanchicagonews.comA young man in Hoffman Estates, Illinois was hit by a train last weekend and died. The Cook County coroner has ruled the death a suicide.
A 14-year-old boy who was struck and killed by a freight train last weekend committed suicide, an autopsy has found.
Emergency personnel responded about 12:50 p.m. Sunday to a report of a pedestrian struck by a train near the Elgin, Joliet and Eastern Railway Company (EJ&E) tracks about 500 feet north of Columbine Boulevard near Pratum Avenue.
Michael A. Cecala, of 5297 Elliott Drive, was dead at the scene. He died of multiple injuries, and his death was ruled a suicide, according to an autopsy report issued Monday by the Cook County Medical Examiner’s office.