Two killed on 14th St. L train subway tracks in Manhattan; NYPD probing if one died trying to save the other victim

A man and woman were killed Tuesday when they were run over by a subway train in Manhattan, police said.

Police are investigating the possibility that the man who died was a good Samaritan who had fallen after trying to catch the woman as she fell between the two cars.

The deceased man was James Miller, 44, said law enforcement sources and a neighbor of Miller’s family in Garden City, L.I.

The neighbor, Matt Curtin, 61, said Miller’s father is a former Nassau County police officer, and that trying to save a life would be “the kind of values he took coming from a home where his father was a police officer for 30-plus years.”

Miller was one of nine children, another former neighbor noted.

“Oh, my God, he’s kind of like one of us,” said a 72-year-old woman who asked not to be named. “We’re in shock. We just heard it this evening.”

Residents who live near Miller’s childhood home remembered him as a friendly, helpful boy.

“He was a great guy,” the elderly woman added. “Good heart. Great musician, handsome.”

The incident happened around 10:25 a.m. at the L line station at W. 14th St. and Sixth Ave.

Miller and the other victim, a 63-year-old woman, did not appear to be on the train before they were hit, said the police sources.

Miller and the woman were found toward the rear of the train about 20 feet away from each other. Miller was found wedged between the train car and the platform.

It was not immediately clear what happened, although cops are working on the theory that the woman was already on the tracks and Miller either jumped to help or was trying to get out of the path of the train.

After Miller landed on the tracks, he tried to climb back up to the platform, only to be crushed between the platform and the train, police sources with knowledge of the case said.

The train operator told responding police that he did not see anyone get pushed off the platform. Nor did he see anyone on the tracks as he entered the station. No criminality was suspected.

Mayor Adams visited the scene of the incident.

Service on the L train was suspended in both directions in Manhattan while officials investigated.

Police are awaiting results of the victims’ autopsies to determine exactly how they died.