BROWNSVILLE, Brooklyn (WABC) -- A 14-year-old boy was killed attempting a dangerous stunt -- jumping from a moving subway train to a Brooklyn platform.
The boy was riding between two cars of a southbound L train when he attempted to jump to the New Lots Avenue station platform in Brownsville around 10:30 p.m. Wednesday.
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He missed and landed on the tracks.
The teen was rushed to Brookdale Hospital where he was pronounced dead.
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The teen's death comes just days after an apparent subway surfer was killed hanging onto the side of a train Greenwich Village.
Quentin Watkins, 31, was hanging onto the side of a Brooklyn-bound F train when he hit something just as the train entered the tunnel at the West Fourth Street station at about 3 p.m. Saturday.