A Messiah University student was struck and killed by a train near the South Gate entrance to campus in Upper Allen Township on Friday, Sept. 19, authorities announced.
Emergency crews were called at 10:48 a.m. to the 400 block of Grantham Road for a pedestrian struck by a train, according to Upper Allen Township Police.
The victim was identified as 22-year-old Brendan James Heisey of Elizabethtown, a Messiah University student, the Cumberland County Coroner’s Office said. Heisey was walking on the tracks when he was struck, suffering multiple traumatic injuries, and was pronounced dead at the scene, according to Coroner Charley Hall…