Beth E. (NJ)
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My husband noticed that there were a few helicopters in the air yesterday. We checked the news to see if anything had happened and saw a story about a person on the train tracks in Millburn/Short Hills.
Today we found out the rest of the story:
Millburn man kills son, then himself
Leaving body home, he walks onto tracks
Tuesday, September 30, 2003
An out-of-work investment banker killed his 8-year-old son, then went to the Short Hills train station, where he crouched on the tracks and was struck by an NJ Transit commuter train yesterday afternoon, authorities said.
xxxxxxxx (Name omitted), 53, of the Short Hills section of Millburn was killed at about 3:40 p.m., said a spokeswoman for NJ Transit.
Millburn Mayor Thomas C. McDermott Jr. said xxxx xxxxxxx, a second-grader at the Elementary School, was found dead at the family's home, about a half-mile from the station.
"It was a murder-suicide," said McDermott Jr., who knew the boy. "I'm kind of stunned at this point. It's a horrific tragedy."
It was not immediately known how much time lapsed between the deaths of the son and his father. Nor was it known who discovered the boy's body or whether xxxxxx wife, xxxx, was home when the boy was killed. McDermott said the wife was at police headquarters last night.
"We're shocked and terribly saddened by this tragedy," Millburn School Superintendent Richard Brodow said last night. "We feel horribly for the family, and we will be doing our very best to comfort a large faculty and student body and a community."
Millburn Police Capt. David Barber said police had not been previously called to the xxxxxx' address. Police refused to elaborate on how the boy was killed or comment on a possible motive.
The neighbor said xxxxxxxx was an investment banker on Wall Street but had been unemployed for several years.
The couple had no other children, the neighbor said.
The father was struck by an eastbound Midtown Direct train along the Morris & Essex Line, about a 150 yards west of the Short Hills station, said Bassett Hackett.
He was crouching on the tracks as the train approached. The engineer blew his whistle and applied the emergency brakes, Bassett Hackett said.
How incredibly sad and tragic!
Today we found out the rest of the story:
Millburn man kills son, then himself
Leaving body home, he walks onto tracks
Tuesday, September 30, 2003
An out-of-work investment banker killed his 8-year-old son, then went to the Short Hills train station, where he crouched on the tracks and was struck by an NJ Transit commuter train yesterday afternoon, authorities said.
xxxxxxxx (Name omitted), 53, of the Short Hills section of Millburn was killed at about 3:40 p.m., said a spokeswoman for NJ Transit.
Millburn Mayor Thomas C. McDermott Jr. said xxxx xxxxxxx, a second-grader at the Elementary School, was found dead at the family's home, about a half-mile from the station.
"It was a murder-suicide," said McDermott Jr., who knew the boy. "I'm kind of stunned at this point. It's a horrific tragedy."
It was not immediately known how much time lapsed between the deaths of the son and his father. Nor was it known who discovered the boy's body or whether xxxxxx wife, xxxx, was home when the boy was killed. McDermott said the wife was at police headquarters last night.
"We're shocked and terribly saddened by this tragedy," Millburn School Superintendent Richard Brodow said last night. "We feel horribly for the family, and we will be doing our very best to comfort a large faculty and student body and a community."
Millburn Police Capt. David Barber said police had not been previously called to the xxxxxx' address. Police refused to elaborate on how the boy was killed or comment on a possible motive.
The neighbor said xxxxxxxx was an investment banker on Wall Street but had been unemployed for several years.
The couple had no other children, the neighbor said.
The father was struck by an eastbound Midtown Direct train along the Morris & Essex Line, about a 150 yards west of the Short Hills station, said Bassett Hackett.
He was crouching on the tracks as the train approached. The engineer blew his whistle and applied the emergency brakes, Bassett Hackett said.
How incredibly sad and tragic!
I always wonder why a person feels the need to end other people's lives, as well as their own..... if they are in that much pain, sorrow, etc. - why also kill innocent people?
