"A man killed Nov. 19 when he was struck by a freight train in East Oakland was identified by the coroner's bureau Monday. San Leandro police had put out a missing persons report on the man, 79-year-old Jiankang Huang, the day before. Huang was killed instantly about 2:54 a.m. Nov. 19, when he was struck by a Union Pacific freight train while reportedly sitting on the railroad tracks in the area of 60th Avenue and San Leandro Street."
"The facility where he had been living, Broadmoor Plaza, referred an inquiry to their corporate office in Southern California. An inquiry to that office had not been returned as of Monday afternoon. Another man who died after being struck by an Amtrak train Nov. 18 in the Fruitvale district of Oakland still has not been positively identified by the coroner's bureau."
Jiankang Huang, 79, was killed instantly about 2:54 a.m. Nov. 19 after being struck by a Union Pacific freight train while reportedly sitting on railroad tracks near 60th Avenue and San Leandro Street in East Oakland. The site is a little over three miles from a senior citizens housing complex in San Leandro where he had been living. Huang suffered from dementia and was reported missing to San Leandro police about 2 p.m. Nov. 18. Police alerted the media and other agencies and distributed flyers with his picture. He had two prior missing-person reports from the same facility in 2023 but had been found safely both times. The housing facility referred inquiries to its corporate office, which had not responded as of Monday afternoon.
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