On Monday April 21, 2008 at approximately 6:30 PM Jeffrey Samora, 24, of Oceanside stepped in front of a speeding Amtrak train near the Carlsbad Village Station and was killed, according to a story on NBCsandiego.com.
The San Diego County Sheriff’s Department said the man who was killed was trespassing on the tracks at the time of the accident.
The death has now been ruled a suicide.
Witnesses said the man, in his 20s, jumped from the Carlsbad Village Drive station platform onto the tracks about 6:20 p.m. and stood there until he was hit by a train going about 60 mph.
[Link: NBCsandiego.com and San Diego Union-Tribune]
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Yuck!