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Man Fleeing Police Has Leg Severed By NYC Subway Train

MTA: Corey Brown Also Lost Part Of An Arm

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NEW YORK (CBSNewYork/AP) — A New York City subway train severed a man’s leg and removed part of his arm as he fled onto tracks to escape police, authorities said Thursday.

Subway workers spotted the man in a tunnel but could not stop the trains in time, a transit official said.

The Metropolitan Transportation Authority said the train sliced off Corey Brown’s left leg. Brown also lost part of one of his arms, police said.

The injury happened at 1:27 a.m. Saturday near the 121st Street station on the J line in Queens. Brown remained in critical condition at a hospital Thursday.

Police said he has been arrested on charges of unlawful use of a vehicle, criminal trespass and resisting arrest.

Police said they spotted Brown and another man, Regan Concepcion, late Saturday and suspected they were stealing a car. When police approached, Brown fled.

MTA spokeswoman Deirdre Parker said police came into the Jamaica Center terminal looking for him around 1 a.m. The officers did not see Brown anywhere on the platform or trains, and were giving up the search and leaving the area when an MTA motorman said he saw someone on the tracks.

Police said they asked the MTA to cut power. But by the time the rail control center could do so, another train had already left the Jamaica Center terminal, Parker said.

Authorities suspended service on the track until 7:45 a.m. while police investigated, Parker said.

Concepcion also was arrested on charges of unlawful use of a vehicle.

Police did not release telephone numbers for the men. It was not clear if they had lawyers.

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  • marge

    Ha!! Poetic Justice! Now he will never be able to hurt anyone again. Maybe he can join a freak show!

  • Lucky Joe

    That car he was trying to steal cost him an arm and a leg…..Must have had tunnel vision or should have…..not to see the train coming…..

  • ALLAN

    Hippity…hop…down the track.

  • christopherl

    he was disarmed
    now doesn’t have a leg to stand on

  • Goetz

    Lack of feelings? for a CAR THIEF???? I guess you never had your car stolen.
    I agree with 90% of posters here, crook got what he deserved. Better if he died,
    now taxpayers have to pay hospital bill for the 2-legged (now one:-) garbage!
    At least he won’t be walking through the revolving doors of justice, limping is
    more like it HAHAHAHA

    • marge

      AMEN TO YOU!!

  • Daniel Barbier

    Society has fallen into disgrace because of selfishness. Selfish politicians, selfish businessmen / businesswomen, selfish people, etc. You get the picture. We are all selfish in some way or form … even me. However, the greed and selfishness to be #1 is a disease within all of us. If we could only look out for one another instead of ourselves, than this world would be a much better place. Kind of like the brother in arms looking out for his partner in combat. That’s the kind of love we all need!

  • bobby

    HE WONT BE RUNNING NO MORE

  • Junior

    One can only notice how ninety percent of people commenting the news are very ill, agressive, and devoid of any human feelings. Consequences of that manifest themselves in everyday life, and that is why this society is disintegrating, and decaying in every way possible. This man may have commited some small crime, but he paid a terrible price for that, and many of readers rushed to show their ill state of mind. Bankers and politicians have destroyed this country and millions of American lives. But you keep on doing business with them, and voting for them.

    • JAYJAY

      People like you (no sense of humor) who destroy this country…. give this man a hand for being tough and running into a train tunnel thinking it was empty. or a leg!!

      Should have pitty on the guy… by next week he will be on a BOAT with some HOES!!! mta $$$$

      so while you worry, he will be wiping his ass with 100 dollar bills…

    • ALLAN

      yak…yakk…yakkity yak

    • Banker

      @Junior: Will you PLEASE give this savage a hand and a leg and an arm?

  • Norberto

    He couldn’t get a leg up on the cops, but at least he was unarmed!

  • Janet Petronella

    well,i believe in the you play you pay law he was obviously running from the law thinking he could get away with it and along came the mta train and ge got caught by not a cop,but a train.thats the way the cookie crumbles!

  • lance

    He doesn’t have a leg to stand on in court.

    • Tim

      Haha Good one…

    • Conway Twitty

      love it

  • Bryan

    Same subway station has 2 freak accident within a month.
    Read article about the drunkin stumbler, I know him, thats why it caught my eyes

    http://www.nypost.com/p/news/local/manhattan/subway_stumbler_dumb_luck_N2iwlmN1iHQAgncMsTXYrJ

  • Bandit

    Metrocard literally costed him an arm and a leg

    • ALLAN

      He didn’t have a metro card, he hopped across the turnstile.

  • Da Persian

    That was fking great line! Lol

  • haywood jablowme

    next week we will be reading how ths man is filing a lawsuit to sue the mta…….. gotta love america

    • rahne

      And he’ll win, or at least get paid very well for nothing. Reqarded for committing a crime. And people wonder why fares are going up all the time.

      • rahne

        “rewarded”, that is…

  • Tony Romo

    I can’t believe nobody on the train platform would give him a hand

  • mark clarki

    this alleged crook got railroaded by the system (transit system that is)

  • JAYJAY

    Well we all know, who has the upper hand in this case..

  • Steve

    That train was just enforcing Sharia Law.

  • Bad Dog

    Don’t laugh, when the lawyers are done he will be a multi-millionaire living on a nice warm beach while all you fools are back working to pay the bill.

  • marcus

    God, I love stories like this.. Makes me laugh so hard.

  • Brian Smith

    So much for having a leg up on the competition.

  • Da Place

    A relatively minor crime but a horrible and life-long punishment. I feel sorry for the guy.

    • jtorres

      You wouldn’t think it was so “minor” if it happened to you. If someone commits ANY crime and in the flight thereafter get hurt, they brought it on themselves and deserve no sympathy. This would have never happened had he not committed crimes or if he would’ve manned up and turned himself over to the police when they tried to stop him. People like you make excuses and try to help them absolve themselves of responsibility. Maybe he didn’t deserve this but he doesn’t deserve sympathy either.

  • maxx

    NICE!!! Street Justice at its finest!!!!

  • puns

    dont worry, now he’s armless.

    • pdubs

      Oh man, so close. You should have said “Don’t worry, he’s now unarmed.” That would have worked.

      • David SIlver

        Perhaps you could say; “I guess now he doesn’t have a leg to stand on…..”

      • Zach

        Or even, “ARMent you glad I didn’t say orange?”

        …no good?

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