Homeless man, 33, electrocuted on LA Metro tracks
Homeless man, 33, electrocuted on LA Metro tracks
A homeless man who was electrocuted after coming into contact with the third rail on Metro tracks at a station in the Westlake District of Los Angeles was identified Wednesday by county authorities.
The victim was Jesse Nishikawa, 33, according to the Los Angeles County Office of Medical Examiner.
Firefighters responded about 11:30 a.m. Tuesday to the Westlake/MacArthur Park Station on the 600 block of South Alvarado Street to reports of man down on tracks shared by Metro’s B (Red) and D (Purple) train lines, according to the Los Angeles Fire Department.
The man “apparently made contact with the electrically energized ‘third rail,’” the LAFD’s Brian Humphrey said.
No one else was injured, he said.
It was unclear how Nishikawa ended up on the tracks, and an autopsy was scheduled to determine his cause of death.
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