A model and actor who caught fire after climbing atop a Manhattan-bound Metro North train has died from his injuries, his agent told The Post on Monday.
“I kind of knew if he lived through the night it would be a supreme miracle,” said Ryan Colby, the agent for tragic, handsome Ohio native Brian McClellen, 21. “I’m a realist and was prepared for this.”
Colby said he was told by McClellen’s Manhattan roommate, who was at his hospital bedside, that the model died sometime Monday morning. Mournful tributes have appeared on social media.
Video taken at the Stamford rail station shows an apparently intoxicated McClellen climbing on top of the New Haven line train shortly before 5:10 a.m. Sunday in Riverside, Conn., a source said.
Investigators believe the victim, who lived near Union Square, was burned after coming in contact with the train’s pantograph, a metal arm that collects power from the 12,500 volts in overheard wires.
Workers found McClellen after going to investigate why power was cut to the train.
The crew used an extinguisher to put out the smoking man atop the sixth car.
McClellen was hospitalized with electrical burns, some third-degree, on more than 90 percent of his body.
