Ray McKie was returning to work when he heard screams and quickly realized there was a train coming into the station and that somebody was on the tracks
NEED TO KNOW
- An MTA conductor jumped onto the tracks to save an unconscious 14-year-old boy last month in New York City
- Ray McKie, 37, tells PEOPLE he later learned the teen had fainted and hit his head during the fall
- He insists he wasn’t the only hero there that day, but says that something his 6-year-old daughter told him afterwards has stayed with him
A subway conductor rushed to stop a train during a rainstorm, saving a 14-year-old boy’s life after he fainted onto the tracks at a subway station in New York City.
On Wednesday, Aug. 20, Ray McKie, a 37-year-old conductor for the MTA, was returning to work at the Queensboro Plaza subway station when he heard screams coming from the above-ground platform.
“I saw that there was a train coming in, and I looked at the tracks, and I saw that there was a person pretty much lying on the tracks,” McKie tells PEOPLE…