The Metro Transit Police Department and the Ramsey County Medical Examiner’s Office are seeking the public’s help in identifying a man who was found dead aboard a Green Line light rail train car as it pulled into the Capitol/Rice Street Station on Jan. 13.

Concerned riders alerted authorities around 11 p.m. that the man appeared unresponsive. Metro Transit Police met the train at the station, located at 130 University Ave. W. in St. Paul, and attempted life-saving efforts, but he was pronounced dead at the scene. It was later determined he had died of a drug overdose.

Surveillance camera images of the man walking down the train car aisle the night of his death showed him wearing a charcoal and mustard-colored North Face jacket, black gloves, dark jeans, black shoes and a backpack. He is described as a dark-skinned man, 5’8, 106 lbs., black hair, brown eyes with a mustache and goatee.

“We just really want to be able to find someone who knows him so that we can let his family or friends know,” said Nikki Muehlhausen, a spokesperson for Metro Transit. “It’s a very sad case.”

Anyone with information about his identity is asked to call the Ramsey County Medical Examiner’s Office at 651-266-1700.

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