This Friday, November 3, the remains of the young woman arrived in Chichicastenango, a municipality in Guatemala where she was originally from.
Dozens of people, including several residents, as well as friends and family, carried out a caravan to the community of Agua Escondida, where Yésica’s parents live and where she left in search of a better future in the United States.
The caravan started in front of Rincón Suizo in the municipality of Tecpán.
The young woman’s body arrived in a coffin that was covered by a United States flag.
With this funeral, the young woman’s family and parents were able to say goodbye to her 17 days after the fatal accident.
The young woman of Guatemalan origin fell onto the train track on October 17 at the Jackson Heights – Roosevelt Avenue station, in Queens.
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A tragedy occurred in the New York subway after Yésika Marleny Ajtzac Guarcas, 18, lost her life after being hit by a train. According to authorities, the young Hispanic woman fainted and fell on the rails.
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The driver of the train that ran over the Guatemalan woman told investigators in the case that he put on the emergency brake to avoid the tragedy, but he did not have enough time.
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The death of the Hispanic teenager occurred around 6:50 in the morning, on Tuesday, on a platform at the Roosevelt Avenue – Jackson Heights station.
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In an interview with Univision 41, Yésika Ajzac’s relatives clarified that “she was not sick,” so they cannot explain how she could faint so close to the road and be run over. They remember her as a responsible and hard-working young woman.
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Yésika Marleny’s sister informed her parents, who are in Guatemala, of the death, and now the family is seeking to raise funds to repatriate the body. She had emigrated to the United States due to lack of opportunities in her country.
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In addition to dealing with Yésica’s death, those close to her are outraged by the video circulating on TikTok. Witnesses to the incident recorded the young woman in her agony and made the disastrous decision to publish it on the social network.
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The NYPD informed the family that it could not show them the video of the Guatemalan woman fainting and falling onto the train track, captured by a security camera. However, the scene also ended up on TikTok and shows that the young woman did collapse on the edge of the platform.
2023-11-03 21:34:00
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