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Early Wednesday morning, a Seaford resident was killed by a Long Island Rail Road work train. Newsday reports that Patrick Robert Neenan apparently jumped into the tracks at the Bellmore station. An MTA spokesman said suicide was "considered unlikely" (the incident is still under investigation), noting that Neenan's iPod and cell phone were on the tracks, too, "We're leaning toward the idea that he must have been trying to retrieve the items." Neenan, 22, was discharged from the Navy and had been working as a construction worker in Manhattan. His shocked mother said, "He was talking to me about all his plans. He wanted to backpack across Europe, he wanted to go to Alaska. Just so many plans."