Subway motorman is Bishop Ford coach

Andrew Savulich/New York Daily News

The subway motorman whose train struck and killed a man pushed onto the tracks on Monday is a junior varsity baseball coach at Bishop Ford HS.?

The subway motorman whose downtown Q train struck and killed a pedestrian who was shoved onto the tracks on Monday is an assistant junior varsity baseball coach at Bishop Ford HS in Brooklyn whose brother died in the 9/11 terrorist attacks, the Daily News has learned.

Terrence Legree, a veteran driver in the MTA?s Transit Division and engaged to be married soon, has worked at Bishop Ford HS for the past six years as the JV team?s first base coach. He is also a well-respected figure within the Brooklyn Bonnies sandlot organization, where he is the director of the instructional league for kids ages 5-7 and coaches a team that includes his 6-year-old son, Triston, according to Bonnies president Jerry Katzke.

Dorothy Sharpe, who serves as the correspondence secretary for the Bonnies, said she spoke to Legree on Tuesday night.

?He sounded really shook up,? Sharpe said. ?I said, ?Are you okay?? And he said, ?I?m trying.? He was really down.?

Katzke last saw Legree at an awards banquet for the Bonnies at Bishop Ford HS in Windsor Terrace on Sunday. Legree first joined the Bonnies as a 13-year-old player, returning to the organization 12 years ago as a coach.

?It?s just devastating because of what happened and because what it?s putting Terrence through,? Katzke said. ?To be going through this, through no fault of his own, is just tragic.?

Legree?s train was entering the 49th St.-Seventh Ave. station on Monday at 12:30 p.m. when it hit Ki-Suk Han, who had been pushed onto the tracks by confessed killer Naeem Davis after the two had argued.

Police said that Legree had no time to stop before hitting the 58-year-old victim. Davis was charged with two counts of murder and was held without bail after his arraignment on Wednesday.

Legree, who is from East Flatbush, was traumatized by the incident and was treated for shock afterward. He later told The News, ?I panned my eyes and saw the guy on the roadbed. He was looking at the platform. He never moved.?

Katzke said that Legree is ?resilient,? pointing to how he bounced back after the death of his brother in the World Trade Center terrorist attacks 11 years ago. Katzke is confident Legree will fight back from this latest trauma.

?The way it happened is that his brother was missing for a long period of time,? Katzke said. ?It was months before they confirmed his death. Terrence had to go through all of that. He?s very resilient.?

Sharpe believes Legree will eventually go back to coaching baseball because ?it?s what he loves to do.? Sharpe also said Legree is set to marry his longtime girlfriend soon.

Bishop Ford JV baseball coach, Matt Maffei, who spent the past three years with Legree before taking a leave of absence this season to return to school, described Legree as a ?high-energy guy, fun to be around."

Bishop Ford athletic director Pete Goyco said that Legree would work as a motorman during the day and hustle to games in the afternoon to be with the team.

?My concern is that he?s okay,? Goyco said. ?Of course I want him to be back here coaching because of what he meant to the kids and the school.?

mabramson@nydailynews.com

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