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Medical examiner identifies man found dead in Kent near railroad tracks

26-year-old man died from multiple blunt force injuries

The man found dead near the BNSF railroad tracks April 21 in Kent has been identified as 26-year-old Winton Agmous-Emmios.

Agmous-Emmios died from multiple blunt force injuries, according to the King County Medical Examiner’s Office, which listed accident as the manner of death.

“The sequence of events and circumstances that led up to the male’s death has not fully been determined,” Kent Police Assistant Chief Jarod Kasner said in an April 26 email. “However, it is believed he was struck by a train causing his death.”

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Officers were dispatched at about 2:40 p.m. April 21 to the area of 1001 First Ave. N., for a report of a man found near the tracks who appeared to be deceased, according to police. When officers and Puget Sound Fire responders arrived, they determined the man was dead.


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