Putnam Resident Dies 3 Weeks After Being Hit By Passing Train

MAHOPAC, NY — Mahopac resident Hope Mantovi succumbed Friday to injuries she received March 19 while on an Metro-North platform in the Bronx, her family has announced.

Mantovi, 23, of Mahopac, was struck around 8:30 p.m. that day at the Woodlawn station by a northbound New Haven Line train and suffered traumatic brain injuries.

"On behalf of my family and myself, we would like to thank everyone for their love, support and prayers for our beautiful Hope. We have lost our beautiful girl and all of us will truly never be the same," her aunt Lisa Mantovi Brennan said April 8 on Facebook.

Mantovi attended Parsons School of Design. She had planned on studying abroad at their school in France and Italy, a family friend said on a GoFundMe page started after the accident.

Mantovi's family donated her organs, her mother Claudine Coletti said in a moving Facebook video shot at NYU Langone Hospital on April 10. She thanked everyone for their prayers and asked for more prayers for the recipients.

"She will be able to save the lives of eight individuals with her organs and up to 30 individuals with the bone and tissue that will be taken," she said. "I ask you from the bottom of our hearts to pray for them with the strength that you did for our daughter, that they go on to live happy, healthy, beautiful lives."