And it sounds like a suicide. At about 1:15 AM, a guy identified only as an adult male hopped a fence near the SODO station–an area off-limit to pedestrians–and jumped in front of the train. He was pronounced dead at the scene. Of course, to be precise, this is the first death from someone being hit by a light rail train; in 2007, a mechanic died in a supply train accident in the Beacon Hill Tunnel.
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