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http://www.news.com.au/world/earl-m...of-freight-train/story-fndir2ev-1226900325749
Earl Myatt called his son seconds before he and wife Mary stepped in front of freight train
Last words... Earl and Mary Myatt had been married for 42 years. Picture: Facebook Source: Supplied
A FATHER called his son to apologise just moments before he and his wife were struck and killed by a train in an apparent suicide bid.
Earl and Mary Myatt were hit by the freight train at 1.37pm local time near Utica, upstate New York, on Sunday.
Just two minutes earlier Earl called his son Bradford to say “he was sorry for what he was about to do.”
“He called me at 1.35, and at 1.37, they were dead,” Bradford, 30, told the Utica Observer-Dispatch . “We’re devastated … but I want everyone to know that my father was a good man, and my mother was an angel who would do anything for anybody.”
According to the paper the couple’s car was found at the scene with a suicide note inside.
Bradford Myatt told the paper that his parents had been married for 42 years but that his 59-year-old mother had recently been diagnosed with a brain aneurism that had reduced her brain function to the level of a toddler.
He said his father was having a tough time dealing with what had happened.
“He was saddened by what she had been reduced to,” Bradford said. “He missed his wife.”
* Readers seeking support and information about suicide prevention can contact Lifeline on 13 11 14
Earl Myatt called his son seconds before he and wife Mary stepped in front of freight train
Last words... Earl and Mary Myatt had been married for 42 years. Picture: Facebook Source: Supplied
A FATHER called his son to apologise just moments before he and his wife were struck and killed by a train in an apparent suicide bid.
Earl and Mary Myatt were hit by the freight train at 1.37pm local time near Utica, upstate New York, on Sunday.
Just two minutes earlier Earl called his son Bradford to say “he was sorry for what he was about to do.”
“He called me at 1.35, and at 1.37, they were dead,” Bradford, 30, told the Utica Observer-Dispatch . “We’re devastated … but I want everyone to know that my father was a good man, and my mother was an angel who would do anything for anybody.”
According to the paper the couple’s car was found at the scene with a suicide note inside.
Bradford Myatt told the paper that his parents had been married for 42 years but that his 59-year-old mother had recently been diagnosed with a brain aneurism that had reduced her brain function to the level of a toddler.
He said his father was having a tough time dealing with what had happened.
“He was saddened by what she had been reduced to,” Bradford said. “He missed his wife.”
* Readers seeking support and information about suicide prevention can contact Lifeline on 13 11 14
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