West Virginia State University baseball player killed by train

Tyler Kincaid
(Courtesy WVSU Athletics)

CHARLESTON, West Virginia -- Although his death is still under investigation, a West Virginia State University baseball player struck and killed by a train early Sunday apparently didn't react to the train's whistle, the Putnam County sheriff said.

 

Tyler Kincaid, a 2011 graduate of Winfield High School, had just finished his first season at WVSU, where he was studying criminal justice in addition to playing on the school's baseball team.

 

Kincaid was killed around 3 a.m. Sunday while walking on the tracks close to Hedrick and Joyce roads in Scott Depot (W.Va.)

 

Putnam County Sheriff Steve DeWeese said his department can't officially rule on the nature of Kincaid's death until it receives a coroner's report. But a video shot from the CSX train shows the train's operators trying to warn Kincaid with the train's whistle and to slow the train before the accident.

 

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Officials investigate baseball player's death 

 

CHARLESTON, W.Va. - Deputies still investigating after a West Virginia State University baseball player was struck and killed by a train over the weekend.

 

Tyler Kincaid, 20, was walking along the railroad tracks at about 3 a.m. Sunday between Hedrick Road and Joyce Road in Scott Depot (W.Va.) train struck him, Putnam Sheriff Steve Deweese said Monday.

Kincaid lives near the scene of the incident. He did not know what Kincaid had been doing prior to the incident.

Deweese said it wasn't clear if Kincaid was walking toward or away from the train. The conductor saw the young man and blew the whistle to alert him but to no avail.

"He did everything by the book to try to avoid a collision with him," Deweese said.  He said it's illegal and very dangerous to walk on railroad tracks. The sheriff did not know why the man did not move from the tracks.

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