Exclusive | Shattered dad of killed NYC subway surfer issues heartfelt plea to other kids: ‘Think about the consequences’
The devastated dad of a 13-year-old boy killed subway surfing in Queens last week pleaded with other kids Monday not to try the risky stunt — after yet another child just fell to her death from a train car.
“Please don’t ride [atop] the subway. Please think about the pain it will cause your parents,” said Adolfo Sanabria, whose teenage son Adolfo Sorzano died subway surfing last week.
“Adolfo was a good boy, he was a beautiful boy. An obedient, kind and honest boy,” Sanabria told The Post.
“When you’re in that moment, that moment of adrenaline, please think about the consequences,” the shattered father said. “There are so many other ways to have fun. Please don’t get carried away by a social-media challenge.
“You have autonomy,” the grieving dad added. “You can say no to your friends.”
Sanabria spoke one day after 14-year-old Krystel Romero was killed when she fell off a southbound No. 7 train near the 111th Street station in Corona — the sixth subway-surfing fatality in the five boroughs so far this year.
Police said Krystel was subway surfing with a 13-year-old buddy who also fell and is now in critical condition at Elmhurst Hospital.
In Adolfo’s case, cops responding to a 911 call found the youngster unconscious at the Forest Avenue subway station shortly before 10 p.m. Wednesday. He was pronounced dead at the scene.
The alarming train-surfing trend, sparked by videos posted to TikTok, Instagram and other social-media sites, left five local youngsters dead last year and six so far this year, with Romero and Sorzano just the latest casualties.
“I trust that God will fill my heart,” Adolfo’s mom, Milene Sorzano, wrote in a moving Facebook post after her son’s death. “Only He knows my reality. I have everything, even what I didn’t have, to my son. I made mistakes and made amends for many things.
“I think we needed more time together,” she wrote. “I learned so much. You taught me to worry about you more than normal, to cook for you, to love. To accept life with a thousand and one difficulties, but also with life and hope, desire to fight and always be better every day.
“I just needed a little more time.”
A gofundme.com page for the tragic teen has raised more than $4,100 as of Monday evening.
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