Update: MTA Police Confirm One Dead after Leaving Train Traveling Between Westport and East Norwalk Stations

After an incident that stopped railway service between East Norwalk and Greens Farms Station this afternoon, the MTA has released information that describes one individual was killed after leaving a train car while it was traveling between the Westport and East Norwalk Stations.

Press Release, MTA Spokesman Aaron Donovan: 

The MTA Police are investigating a report that a 45-year-old male left a westbound Metro-North train at approximately 11:27 a.m. as the train was traveling between Westport and East Norwalk. The individual was pronounced deceased.

Metro-North service is suspended between South Norwalk and Southport. [now restored].

The train, carrying 150 passengers, was the scheduled 10:38 a.m. departure from New Haven, due into Grand Central at 12:50 p.m. As of 12:45 p.m., those customers have been transferred to another train.

Update, 2:11 p.m.

Metro-North service will resume on the New Haven Line at Green's Farms, Westport and East Norwalk beginning with the 1:18 PM train departing New Haven and the 1:03 PM train departing Grand Central Terminal.