THOUSAND OAKS : Man Killed on Train Tracks Is Identified
Police have identified a man who was killed when he jumped in front of a Southern Pacific Railroad train in Simi Valley as Larry Robert Hall, 52, of Thousand Oaks.
Authorities ruled Hall’s death Friday evening a suicide, based on accounts of witnesses who said he appeared to step deliberately from behind a street sign into the path of the oncoming train, which was moving at 40 to 50 m.p.h.
Hall last month pleaded guilty to an assault charge in the midst of a criminal trial.
He had been arrested in December for threatening an off-duty Secret Service agent with a knife in a Thousand Oaks bar. Prosecutors accused Hall of attacking agent James Carter because Carter is black, and said that Hall, who is white, objected to Carter being in Thousand Oaks. Hall was awaiting sentencing.
Hall, a painting contractor, is survived by his wife and two daughters, according to the Ventura County coroner’s office.
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