A man who died after he was dragged down a Washington, D.C. Metro station platform when his dog's leash apparently got stuck in a train door was inseparable from his service animal, his family says.
when his dog's leash apparently got stuck in a train door was inseparable from his service animal, his family says.
Harold Riley, 50, had stepped off a 7000 series train around 1:30 p.m. Wednesday at the Dunn Loring station, when the door closed behind him, but his dog Daisy was still inside the train, Metro said. Daisy's leash, which was tied to Riley, was caught in the door and Riley was pulled down the platform when the train started moving to the next station.
The family told News4 Harold likely had Daisy’s leash tied to his belt loop because that’s how they trained her to walk with him.Sign up for NBC Philadelphia newsletters."My father rides that Metro probably five, six, seven times a day … and he’s been doing that, I would say, for probably the last year-and-a-half with Daisy. And Daisy goes everywhere with him, you know, like, she’s never home alone," Riley's daughter Amanda Greenwood said.
Metro said the train operator conducted two safe door checks before moving the train. The operator's cab was about 450 feet away from the incident. Metro said Wednesday it was reviewing surveillance video of the incident.
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