On the evening of December 7, 1993, Maria Theresa Tumangan Magtoto, a 39-year-old Filipino woman, was among commuters on an eastbound Long Island Rail Road train from Penn Station when a passenger, Colin Ferguson, produced a 9mm semi-automatic pistol and began firing in the third car as the train approached Merillon Avenue station in Garden City Park. The attack lasted only minutes but left six riders dead, including Magtoto, and nineteen others wounded.

Passengers subdued Ferguson as he reloaded, and an off-duty railroad police officer then handcuffed him at the scene. Ferguson was arraigned the next day, indicted on multiple counts tied to the killings, wounds, and weapons, and eventually tried. He dismissed his lawyers and represented himself; jurors convicted him of second-degree murder for the six deaths and of attempted murder and weapons charges for the wounded and other counts. He was sentenced to consecutive life terms plus additional years, and remains the sole identified perpetrator in Magtoto’s death.

Anyone who knew Maria Theresa Tumangan Magtoto or was on that train and can share memories or details is asked to contribute information for the record?