‘Something was very, very wrong’: Mother of girl who survived father’s train suicide ran to station moments too late

Published September 24, 2019 1:26pm ET



The wife of a man who died by suicide on the tracks of a train station in the Bronx sensed her husband was unwell moments before his death.

Fernando Balbuena grabbed his 5-year-old daughter and leaped in front of a southbound No. 4 train at the Kingsbridge Road station after making a troubling phone call to his wife.

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