Family of man struck by Maryland metro sues state for wrongful death

Luke Parker, The Baltimore Sun on Aug 7, 2026

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BALTIMORE — The family of a man struck and killed by a Metro train in Pikesville is suing the Maryland Transit Administration, hoping to learn more about what led to his death and compensate his two children for their loss.

According to the lawsuit, which was transferred Tuesday to Baltimore County Circuit Court, Kaseem Malik Ray went to the Old Court Metro Station after hours on April 16, 2023. Although it was just after 1 a.m. that Sunday, the entrance was not locked, monitored or secured, the lawsuit states, and Ray tripped from the platform into the path of a moving train.

“On information and belief,” the family said Ray survived the initial impact. He lay there “for sufficient time” after the crash that MTA could have rescued Ray if the station was monitoring the tracks, according to the complaint.

Since then, Ray’s family has not been able to review security footage from the station or an incident report from the crash, their attorney, Mark Epstein, told The Baltimore Sun.

The family hopes that a lawsuit against MTA, which operates the 14 Metro SubwayLink stations in the city region, will procedurally compel the state to produce the information they’ve been seeking for years, Epstein said.

“All we’ve been able to do is make assumptions about what happened,” he said Thursday, explaining that the lack of certainty has “caused the descendant’s mother a lot of grief.”

An MTA representative did not immediately respond to a request for comment.

The Old Court metro station is the second stop coming south on the Metro SubwayLink, which connects Owings Mills to a station near Johns Hopkins University.

To access the train, passengers must walk across a covered pedestrian bridge and go through a fare gate before accessing the platform at the base of an escalator.

Ray’s family accuses the state of breaching its “highest duty” to operate a safe metro station by failing to secure the entrance after closing and not having security staff patrolling or monitoring the platform.

Their lawsuit seeks compensatory damages topping $75,000 in each of two counts: wrongful death and negligence.

An MTA representative did not immediately respond to a request for comment.

The family initially filed their complaint against the agency in Baltimore City in April, but the case was transferred to the county this week.

Epstein said the plaintiffs will likely appeal that decision and try to get back to the city court, their preferred venue.

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