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Patrick Neenan was killed by a train on the Long Island Railroad tracks in Bellmore Wednesday. (Handout)



A Seaford man who was recently discharged from the Navy was struck and killed by a Long Island Rail Road work train when he was on the tracks at the Bellmore station, authorities and his family said.

Around 4:35 a.m. Wednesday, Patrick Robert Neenan, 22, hopped down onto the tracks from the eastbound platform, said MTA spokesman Salvatore Arena.

While the accident was still under investigation, suicide was considered unlikely, he said. Arena said Neenan's iPod and cell phone were found on the tracks next to him, and Neenan may have been trying to pick them up when the work train came upon him.

"We're leaning toward the idea that he must have been trying to retrieve the items," Arena said.

After finishing his construction job in Manhattan Tuesday, Neenan met up with a cousin in Bellmore who was at the end of a leave from the Marines, his mother, Margaret Neenan, said Wednesday.

Neenan was waiting for a train to his parents' house in Seaford, where he'd been living since he was discharged from the Navy on Halloween, she said.

Neenan served as an airman technician on the USS Theodore Roosevelt, an aircraft carrier in Washington, his mother said. He enlisted a year after graduating from Seaford High School and traveled the world while in the military.

"He liked the Navy. He spent a summer in Japan," said Neenan, 47, a nurse.

After his discharge, Neenan drove cross-country and returned to Long Island on Election Day, she said.

Neenan picked up a few construction shifts while he figured out what to do with his life, his mother said.

"It's just like I'm in shock. This kid was just so full of life," she said. "He was talking to me about all his plans. He wanted to backpack across Europe, he wanted to go to Alaska. Just so many plans."

Viewing will be Saturday and Sunday at Charles Schmitt Funeral Home in Seaford. The funeral is scheduled for 10 a.m. Monday at St. William the Abbot in Seaford, with burial to follow at Calverton National Cemetery.

Staff writer John Valenti contributed to this story.

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Originally Posted by NozzleNose

I cant believe you guys are bitching about the FD not being called...there were 2 county buses on scene and a number of cops, the cops will get there before the FD most likely especially if 911 is called and not fire com....IM pretty damn sure that a cop can accuratly tell if a guy that just got blasted by a train is dead...Ive seen a few people after they get hit by a train...its very obvious your dead. THere was no fire there, there were already 2 ambulances, and police...if they needed the FD they would have called, if they needed ESU they would have called....BUT GUESS WHAT>>>THEY DIDNT so all of you stop complaining about it

Well put, Nozz.

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no point in even getting into it. its not just this one incident, its a slippery slope.

i understand what your saying, but get the FD started prior to the cops going on scene, im sure they started ESU prior to the cops going 84 (well i hope they did), its called being proactive. not everyone that gets hit by a train dies, yeah its defintely a bad injury, but you dont know the extent of the patients injuries until you come into contact with the patient.

you never know how fast the FD might get out, for all you know they could be down the block at an aided case.

i am in no way critiquing the actions of anyone at this assignment, i dont know the circumstances of this call, but if its a man under the cops cannot access the patient, if its a pedestrian struck thats a different story. The cops might not even operate on the tracks with the power on to determine if this person is in fact deceased, just because someone looks deceased doesnt mean that they are.

i went to a pedestrian struck where the medics pronounced someone, they put a sheet over the patient, the cop standing there went "i dont know whats under that sheet, but its moving" ten seconds letter we were working him up.

the medic is a good medic, she just triaged him out, there were 6 other patients there, he was obviously going to die, but she shouldnt have pronounced him, she should have made him a red tag and worked on the other patients

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R.i.p.

[MoRun12]

No bitching from me. I just feel awful for the family.