MAN:
00:00:27
Got pictures. It's a total of six train surfers.
SHANELLE KAUL:
00:00:30
The alarming maneuvers were captured on this NYPD drone footage.
MAN:
00:00:34
Two on the tracks. They're jumping into a backyard-- one, white sweatshirt, black pants, one, all black. They're going into a backyard right now.
SHANELLE KAUL:
00:00:40
In the video, officers can be seen converging on two of the suspects before making the arrests. It's all part of a frightening viral trend on social media, teens risking life and limb for online influence, posting harrowing videos and photos of themselves climbing on top of subway cars, pictures like this one, of a 16-year-old girl seen hanging off the top of a Brooklyn train after hitting her torso and leg on a beam before being rescued. Since 2023, the NYPD has been using drone surveillance and targeted patrols to track and stop this alarming behavior, identifying more than 900 incidents this year alone, with at least 200 lifesaving rescues. But this surveillance wasn't enough to save 12-year-old Zemfira Mukhtarov. She and her 13-year-old friend were killed subway surfing last October, two of at least 18 teenagers who lost their lives in New York City since 2022. There are a lot of people that do. I think it's just like, they just want to do it for the adrenaline rush. Will Loretti was friends with Zackery Nazario, who died in a subway-surfing incident in 2023. The week before he died, we were all in the bathroom, and he was showing me a video of him coming back from Far Rockaway on the 7 train with-- I shook him. I said, you're going to die. If you don't cut this out, you're going to die. And he was like, yeah, yeah, I know. That was my last train ride. I don't think I'm ever going to go on top of those trains again. And city and state officials have expanded a public safety campaign called Ride Inside, Stay Alive, hoping more awareness will help save lives. Shanelle Kaul, CBS News,New York.
