SEATTLE — Family and friends have identified a man struck and killed by a freight train at Carkeek Park in Seattle while walking on the tracks on Saturday night as 24-year-old Shawn Clark.
SEATTLE — Family and friends have identified a man struck and killed by a freight train at Carkeek Park in Seattle while walking on the tracks on Saturday night as 24-year-old Shawn Clark.
A friend, Jonathon Allen, told KING-TV Sunday, "He was very adventurous. Maybe he thought he could get out of the way in time, maybe he stumbled, I don’t know." Allen said Clark was the father of two daughters.
Clark was among a group of young people on the tracks at Carkeek Park, but all but one person scattered when the Burlington Northern Santa Fe train bound to Chicago from Seattle sounded its horn.
KING-TV said both Burlington Northern and Seattle City Parks try to prevent people from going on the tracks by using no trespassing signs and barbed wire fences.
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