A split-second decision cost one San Antonio man his life.

Howard Lee Lyons, 59, was hit and killed by a train on Nov. 13. The San Antonio Police Department said he was chasing after his dog when it happened.

The Bexar County Medical Examiner’s Office said he died from blunt force injuries.

“I don’t want him to go, and nobody knows what happened,” Lyon’s friend Jennifer Stoelb said. “He disappeared trying to save a dog.”

Stoelb met Lyons two years ago. She said they both worked at the Econo Lodge near Loop 410 and Interstate 35 on the Northeast Side.

She said Lyons lived at that hotel for two decades until it recently closed. Stoelb said that’s when he and some of the other people who lived there began to experience homelessness.

“They all scattered,” Stoelb said. “Some of them were

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