HOFFMAN ESTATES--A freight train fatally struck Michael A. Cecala, 14, Sunday afternoon.
About 12:50 p.m., emergency personnel responded to a report of a pedestrian struck by a train near the Elgin, Joliet and Eastern Railway Company (EJ&E) tracks about 500 feet north of Columbine Boulevard near Pratum Avenue, according to Hoffman Estates police. Police said the body was found between the tracks.
Cecala, of 5297 Elliott Dr. in Hoffman Estates, was dead on the scene and pronounced dead at Sherman Hospital in Elgin via telemetry, according to the Cook County Medical Examiner. An autopsy is scheduled.
The victim was struck by a Canadian National Railway freight train from Waterloo, Iowa, to Winnipeg, Canada, according to company spokesman Patrick Waldron. Canadian National police are assisting Hoffman Estates police in the investigation.
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