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Suicide by train in woman's death

| July 3, 2013 6:00 AM

EPHRATA - Grant County Coroner Craig Morrison suspects suicide in the death of a woman here the morning of Saturday, June 22.

Morrison identified the woman struck and killed by a train as Cristina Celeste Hernandez, age 25 of Ephrata. ?

Hernandez was killed this around 9:45 in Ephrata when she was hit by an eastbound Burlington Northern-Santa Fe freight train. Her body was found near the AmTrak Depot near Division Avenue East and Alder Street.