‘You never think that you’ll die in that way’

Jon Alexander loved to feed squirrels.

A 64-year-old Marine Corps veteran, Alexander lived with his sister in Hollywood, Fla., and he used to ride his motorized wheelchair to a nearby park with walnuts in hand to feed the critters.

It was on his way back home from the park on a Monday afternoon in 2022 when Alexander drove his chair over railroad tracks at Fillmore Street and was hit side-on by a Brightline train. He died in the hospital two weeks later…

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