JAKARTA: The Jakarta Police say that seven male teenagers, whose bodies were found in the Bekasi River in West Java on Sunday (Sept 22), are believed to have drowned after jumping into the water to evade police arrest.
The family repeatedly tried to dissuade Cayden, warning him of the dangers of train surfing, and even taking his cell phone away, but it wasn’t enough to stop him. —Cayden Thompson had became enraptured by subway surfing months before he died last Monday atop a G train in Brooklyn.
“He was talking about for a couple of months now. He would watch YouTube videos on it, TikTok videos, ” explained Cayden’s uncle, Christian Vega, 15, who was raised as the boy’s brother. “We tried taking his devices away from him, so he can stay away from that. He still had the idea.” “They make it cool, they make it fun, they make it attractive. And you combine that with an adolescent young boy, who by definition has bad judgment, and you have a perfect storm,” said attorney Matthew Bergman, the founder of the Social Media Victims Law Center.
Last Monday’s horror is the fourth recorded subway surfing death this year, according to the NYPD. Five deaths were recorded in 2023. Bergman is representing Norma Nazario, the mother of 15-year-old Zackery Nazario, who was killed subway surfing atop a Brooklyn-bound J train on February 20, 2023. As the train rumbled across the Williamsburg Bridge, a low beam struck Zackery in the head, knocking him between subway cars. He was run over by the train. Nazario, filed a lawsuit against TikTok, Meta and the MTA on the anniversary of Zackery’s death this year.
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