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Colin Mixson

Mom of 14-year-old boy killed subway surfing in Brooklyn says friends goaded son into deadly stunt

As paramedics pulled the body of 14-year-old subway surfer Briyan Crespo from a Brooklyn rail bed, his phone rang over and over as his worried mother tried to reach him.

“He wasn’t picking up,” Briyan’s devastated mom, Sonia, speaking in Spanish, told the Daily News in an exclusive interview. “I left messages saying, ‘Where are you? Answer me!’”

Crespo was riding atop a Manhattan-bound L train with friend Widinson Garcia, also 14, on Thursday when the pair were knocked to the tracks as their car entered the Bushwick-Aberdeen station shortly before 2 p.m. ET.

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