DJ Tech Trackz Dies After Jumping On The Tracks For His iPhone

A Bronx deejay who busted out beats under the name “Tech Trackz” died on a stretch of city subway tracks Saturday morning as he tried to retrieve an iPhone he had dropped, officials said.

Police sources said Francisco Diego Jr., 22, was shocked and then hit by a No. 2 train at the Wakefield-241st St. station — the last stop on the line — just after 1 a.m.

Sources said Diego told a token booth clerk he had dropped his smart phone on the tracks. After the train entered the station he managed to get between two train cars and jumped onto the tracks. He was electrocuted when he touched the third rail, sources said.

Diego fell onto the tracks, where the train hit him as it rumbled out of the station to be serviced.

Paramedics rushed the tragically injured Diego to Jacobi Medical Center, but he could not be saved.

The always-smiling spin master had just worked a Memorial Day bash at Maximo’s Place, a Bronx nightclub where he often hosted dance parties, according to his Facebook page.

His grief-stricken mother choked back tears as she declined to talk about her son.

Heartbroken friends stood outside Diego’s Fox St. home, where a makeshift memorial had been erected. They were in disbelief that Tech Trackz would do something so risky for something so replaceable.

“He’s not the type to jump into the subway to get it,” said friend Kevin Atterbury, 16. “He would just go get a new one. That’s why this is so shocking.”

But family members said Diego had ventured onto the tracks in the past.

“He’s done it before, which is why he tried to do it again,” said Diego’s sister Nandy, 19. “But this time it wasn’t successful. I feel like my heart has been ripped out.”

“He said he was going to see me the next day,” said teary friend Jeannine Vargas, 19. “He was super friendly. He always had a smile on his face.”

Diego was the second person to be killed on the No. 2 line in a 24-hour period. A man trying to cross the tracks at the E. 174th St. station was hit by a northbound No. 2 train and was pinned between the train and the platform about 2:15 a.m. Friday morning, police said. He was rushed to St. Barnabas Hospital, but he could not be saved.



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