UPDATE: Train Victim's Family Plans to Challenge Medical Examiner's Ruling

Updated: Aug. 11 2:15 p.m.

A lawyer who once represented the Stamford woman who was fatally injured when she was struck by a train in Cos Cob last week said the victim’s family will launch its own investigation, challenging the medical examiner’s ruling that her death was a suicide.

Stamford lawyer Mark Sherman told Greenwich Time that Tamar A. Louis’s family would conduct its own investigation. Her father told the newspaper that he wants to find out what really happened to his daughter.

Witnesses have told police that Louis was sitting and dangling her legs on the edge of the Cos Cob station platform shortly before 9:30 a.m. Friday. The engineer of an express, New Haven bound train approaching the station sounded his horn and that is when Louis was said to have dropped an item onto the tracks. Witnesses have said she then jumped onto the tracks to retrieve the item and was struck by the train that authorities estimated was traveling at 45 mph.

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Original story: Aug. 10

The death of a Stamford woman who jumped onto the railroad tracks to retrieve something she dropped at the Cos Cob train station Friday morning has been ruled a suicide.

According to the Office of the Chief State Medical Examiner, Tamar A. Louis, 28, of Ivy Street in Stamford, died from “blunt impact to the head, torso and extremities with fractures and visceral wounds.” Her death was ruled a suicide, according the medical examiner’s office.

Metro-North Railroad media liaison Meredith Daniels said on Monday that the investigation into the Aug. 7 incident by the Metropolitan Transportation Authority continues.

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“This investigation is still open, however we can say that this has been deemed a suicide based on reports from the medical examiner,” Daniels said.

Authorities have said that Louis was sitting on the edge of the northbound platform dangling her legs shortly before 9:30 a.m. As the engineer of an approaching express train sounded the train horn, “She jumps up, drops something and she jumps down (to the tracks) to retrieve it,” Daniels said.

Previously, authorities have said Louis dropped a wallet or a handbag.

Daniels added, “Why was she there with her legs dangling?”

On Saturday, another MTA spokesman, Sal Arena, said the train was traveling about 45 mph as it passed through the Cos Cob station.