North Carolina man who loved riding on top of trains is decapitated after being hit by bridge as train passed underneath it
24-year-old Varcy Locklear's skull was found only on December 11, more than a month after the incident of October 30
Skeletal remains found along train tracks in Robeson County, North Carolina, belonged to a man who was killed while riding on top of a train, a medical examiner has confirmed.
Twenty four-year-old Varcy Locklear of Pembroke is believed to have been surfing on top of an Amtrak car on October 30, and was killed when hit by a bridge in St. Paul's as the train passed beneath it.
According to local news outlet WRAL, Locklear was a stowaway on the train that fateful day when he struck the bridge, fell off the train, and ended up underneath it.