A subway surfing 12-year-old boy was busted a fourth time in Queens — and cops said Saturday that injuries he previously suffered falling from a train did not deter him from the dangerous stunts.
“Even after falling off the train in one of the incidents, he continues to risk his life,” the police said on Twitter.
Police spotted the boy atop a Manhattan-bound No. 7 train at about 5:00 p.m. Wednesday at the 33rd St. station on Queens Blvd. in Sunnyside.
Cops took him into custody at the scene, and due to his age, police only took a report on the boy, documenting the stunt as reckless endangerment before releasing him. The boy was not formally charged in the case.
At about 5:30 p.m. Thursday — a day after the 12-year-old was detained by cops — 14-year-old Jevon Fraser was subway surfing on top of another No. 7 train also near the 33rd St. station when he also fell. Jevon later died from serious head trauma at Long Island Jewish Hospital, cops said.
Though the 12-year-old boy was unharmed Wednesday, in one of his three other subway surfing incidents known to cops, he fell to the tracks from an eastbound R train at the Elmhurst Ave. station on April 5.
In that incident, the boy suffered head injuries, a cut to his right knee and bruising to his back. But it wasn’t enough to deter him from trying it again this week.
Other subway surfers have not been so lucky.
On June 22, 14-year-old Bryan Crespo was killed and his friend Widinson Garcia, 14, was seriously injured when they fell from the top of an L train while subway surfing near the Bushwick-Aberdeen station in Brooklyn, police said.
Widinson was taken to Cohen Children’s Medical Center and has since stabilized.
NYPD Chief of Transit Michael Kemper said June 22 that cops had identified 70 teen subway surfers in previous weeks, and visited their homes to speak with their families, imploring them to stop.
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