SYLMAR : Woman Kneels in Path of Metrolink Train in Suicide
A 47-year-old woman, leaving a note blaming family problems, committed suicide Friday by kneeling in the path of a Metrolink train on the same nine-mile stretch of track between Sylmar and Sun Valley where there have been five other fatalities in four months.
Kay Jokel, whose last known address was in Woodland Hills, was struck by the train shortly before 5 p.m. near San Fernando Road in Sylmar, the Los Angeles City Fire Department said. On the front passenger seat of her car nearby lay a long note telling Jokel’s discoverers that she killed herself because she felt spurned and hated by the family she loved.
The train’s engineer told police that the woman ran out to the tracks and knelt before the oncoming train, Officer Ralph Kempner said.
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