The 2 younger women horrifically killed in a Brooklyn subway browsing tragedy have now been recognized – whereas the youthful sufferer’s devastated dad sobbed that his slain daughter was “energetic, and brought from us far too quickly.”
Zemfira Mukhtarov, 12, of Brooklyn, and Ebba Morina, 13, of Manhattan, have been discovered unconscious and unresponsive on prime of a Brooklyn-bound J prepare on the Marcy Avenue-Broadway subway station in Williamsburg round 3:10 a.m. on Saturday, cops and sources stated.
Each women died on the scene, bringing the overall variety of victims misplaced to the viral however lethal pattern to 5 this 12 months, police stated.
“With heavy hearts, we’re reaching out for help after the tragic lack of my beloved daughter, Zemfira, who handed away in a devastating accident at a subway station,” Zemfira’s father, Ruslan Mukhtarov, posted on a GoFundMe web page, meant to assist cowl funeral and memorial companies.
“She was 12 and she or he needed to have her [13th birthday] in simply 2 weeks, energetic, and brought from us far too quickly in a heartbreaking incident that we imagine was a subway browsing accident,” he added. “No dad or mum ought to ever must face the ache of dropping a toddler, and no baby ought to lose their life in such a tragic approach.
“We’re struggling to course of this immense grief, and we’re turning to our group for assist to provide Zemfira the respectful and loving farewell she deserves.”
Zemfira and Ebba have been with a bunch of about 15 teenagers working round contained in the prepare earlier than they have been discovered on the roof, witnesses informed police.
Officers have been seen talking to a few teenage boys contained in the station, then driving two of the boys away in a cruiser.
Subway browsing stunts, fueled by social media, have been on the upswing in recent times as teenagers have posted movies of the brazen act, officers have stated.
Six individuals died whereas subway browsing in 2024, and 5 individuals have been killed within the harmful stunts in 2023.
Between 2018 and 2022, simply 5 individuals died using atop trains.
“It’s heartbreaking that two younger women are gone as a result of they in some way thought using exterior a subway prepare was a suitable sport,” NYC Transit President Demetrius Crichlow stated in a press release.
“Dad and mom, lecturers, and pals have to be clear with family members: getting on prime of a subway automotive isn’t ‘browsing’— it’s suicide,” he continued. “I’m pondering of each the grieving households, and transit employees who found these kids, all of whom have been horribly shaken by this tragedy.”
The final New Yorker to lose his life whereas subway browsing was Carlos Oliver, 15, of the Bronx, who plunged off a southbound 7 prepare because it pulled into the Queensboro Plaza station in Lengthy Island Metropolis round 2:45 a.m. on July 4, cops stated.
On March 14, Gustavo Guaman-Quizhpilema, 12, of Queens was critically injured whereas using on prime of a 7 prepare on the 111th Avenue station in Corona round 8:15 a.m.
Gustavo died 4 days after he was struck, based on a GoFundMe web page.
MTA officers have pleaded with mother and father to make sure their children aren’t drawn into the reckless pattern.
The MTA has additionally been working a “Trip Inside, Keep Alive” public service announcement on the subways since 2023, telling teenagers to not experience exterior the prepare.
The NYPD started utilizing drones in November 2023 to fight the problem, and busted 229 individuals using exterior the trains in 2024, up from 135 in 2023, based on NYPD knowledge.
