Crime & Safety

MTA Police ID Woman Killed by Train in Wantagh

Wantagh resident Celeste Guerriero identified as person fatally struck last Friday on LIRR tracks.

MTA police have identified the 45-year old woman who was fatally by a train last Friday at the Wantagh Long Island Rail Road (LIRR).

LIRR spokesman Sam Zambuto said the woman who was killed while standing on the westbound tracks just before 11:30 a.m. on March 11 was Celeste Guerriero of Wantagh. Zambuto said MTA police are continuing to investigate Guerriero’s death as a possible suicide.

The train that struck Guerriero was a westbound express from Babylon to Freeport.

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