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… 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.
