Transit police are looking to the public for help tracking down a heartless thief they say stole a woman’s cellphone just moments after she was struck and killed by a Red Line train Thursday night. 
 
 “I think that’s a pretty lowly thing to do. I’d definitely call him a scumbag,” said Scott Greel of Quincy as he looked over a photo of the alleged thief while waiting for a train home last night. “I think it’s sickening.” 

 Transit Police are looking for a man they say stole the cellphone of a woman who was struck and killed by a Red Line train Thursday night, and are asking the public for help to identify the man. 
 
 The woman was struck by a train at the Downtown Crossing station about 9:48 p.m. Thursday night, according to MBTA Transit Police spokesman Lieutenant Richard Sullivan. 
 
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 After reviewing video surveillance, detectives discovered that the victim’s phone, which was in a distinct orange case, had flown away from her upon impact and landed on the platform. 
 
 The video shows a man walking over to the phone and placing his foot on top of it, as though to conceal it, before reaching down and putting the phone in his pocket, Sullivan said. The man then casually walked away, Sullivan said. 
 
 “It’s reprehensible,” he said. 
 
 Sullivan said the video speaks for itself: The man appeared to witness the woman getting struck by the train and took advantage of the situation. 
 
 “Ninety-nine percent of all of the other people were concerned about what happened, running to the end of the train to see if they could help,” he said. “This gentleman had a different idea.” 
 
 Since the transit police posted information about the incident online Friday, Sullivan said numerous people have expressed strong opinions about the man. 
 
 “A lot of people are outraged,” he said. 
 
 The accident disrupted Red Line service Thursday, with MBTA staff temporarily shutting down power at the Downtown Crossing station as a precaution. 
 
 After the woman was struck, riders poured out of the station and were rerouted to buses running between the Harvard Square and Broadway stops. 
 
 Transit Police are releasing photographs of the man to ask for help tracking him down. Anyone with information can call 617-222-1050 or text tips anonymously to 873873.
– There are Good Samaritans and then there are, well, this guy. Transit police in Boston are seeking a man who walked away with a woman's phone after she was struck and killed by a subway train, reports the Boston Herald. Surveillance video shows that after the woman was hit by the train at a station—she either jumped or fell, and foul play is not suspected—her phone flew backward onto the platform. Our hero then enters the scene. “The male keeps his foot on top of the phone as he scans the area apparently to see if anyone is watching him,” says a police statement. After a moment, he reaches down, pockets the phone, and walks away. “Ninety-nine percent of all of the other people were concerned about what happened, running to the end of the train to see if they could help,” a transit police spokesperson tells the Boston Globe. “This gentleman had a different idea.” (And this subway story has a better ending.)