A journalism professor at a college near Boston has been struck and killed by a train.
In a statement, Emerson College confirmed that associate professor Moses Shumow died Tuesday.
The Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority said a man, later identified as Shumow, riding a bicycle on a pedestrian cut-through was struck by a commuter train at the Beverly Depot station at about 8:20 a.m.
Shumow, 42, was a 2001 graduate of Emerson who had just joined the school’s faculty for this academic year. He had previously taught for nine years at Florida International University in Miami-Dade County.
“We are deeply saddened by the sudden and tragic passing of our friend and colleague Dr. Moses Shumow,” Brian Schriner, dean of FIU’s College of Communication, Architecture and the Arts, said in a statement Wednesday, WPLG-Ch. 10 reported.
Shumow is survived by a wife and three children, according to Emerson College.
The college’s statement said Shumow “was passionate about the role of media in vulnerable and marginalized communities” and called his death “an unimaginable tragedy.”
