JACKSON HEIGHTS, Queens (WABC) -- A man has died after falling on the subway tracks during a fights in Queens.

Police say Heriberto Quintana, 48, was struck by an oncoming F train at the Roosevelt Ave-Jackson Heights subway position on Monday just before 5 p.m.

Police maintain Quintana bumped into another man on the platform progressing the second man's cellphone to fall onto the track bed. Then a fights erupted.

Quintana then fell onto the tracks as the F whisper pulled into the station. EMS eventually rescued his body from the tracks and Quintana was later pronounced dead at Elmhurst Hospital.

Authorities maintain the two men were strangers before the fatal encounter.

Detectives are reviewing surveillance videos and interviewing eyewitnesses to choose if Quintana was pushed onto the tracks or if he lost his conditions during the fight.

"For anyone to lose their life over a fights, what is that?" said Charlton D'Souza.

Police say they arrested a 50-year-old man at the outrageous, believed to be involved in the fight.

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