13-year-old Queens boy killed subway surfing told parents he had stopped

They thought they had gotten through to the boy.
Nine months ago, when the parents of 13-year-old Adolfo Sorzano learned that he was risking his life subway surfing on speeding trains, they were in touch with his school and in consultation with a social worker.
So when they got the call last week from one of Adolfo’s friends that had been killed joyriding atop a train in Queens, they were absolutely stunned.
“We talked to him about it, and he said he stopped,” Adolfo’s tearful stepmother told the Daily News. “We hoped he would choose safer paths.”
She said that she and Adolfo’s father were hoping that Adolfo’s death would, at the very least, serve as a warning for would-be daredevils.
But the weekend death of a 13-year-old Queens girl atop another subway train only compounded the crushing grief.
“It’s heartbreaking to think of other kids facing this kind of danger,” Adolfo’s stepmother said.
“Just yesterday, another child was killed by a train,” she said. “No parent should have to go through this. We need to protect our children.”
The girl she referenced died Sunday night after she fell from a Manhattan-bound No. 7 train near the elevated 111th St. station in Corona at 10:38 p.m. A 12-year-old girl who was joyriding with her also fell, and was in critical condition at Elmhurst Hospital.
The train struck them both.
Adolfo’s mother, Milene Sorzano, 30, who lives in Miami, said her son was “very outgoing” and liked “extreme sports.”
“I think that the challenge was very, very striking to him,” she said of subway surfing.
Adolfo moved from Colombia to New York with his father about two years ago, relatives said.
His mother said she moved from Colombia to Miami about two months ago, not long after she was told about Adolfo’s earlier subway surfing exploits.
“ I discovered that he was doing it while I was still in Colombia,” Sorzano said. “That was when I decided to come — but no, I couldn’t stop it.”
She said Adolfo lived with her in Miami for about a month, but then he returned to New York.
Sorzano said she wished she could have done more to keep Adolfo safe.
“It’s important to have time for and know-how to put children in other types of activities like sports and art, so that they can dedicate themselves to that  in their free time;” Sorzano said. “But it’s a bit difficult because the system here forces us to have to go out to work in order to survive. But nothing, nothing, nothing, none of that is a justification.”
Days before his death, Adolfo celebrated  his 13th birthday. Hours before he died, his dad and his stepmom had dropped him off at a park in Queens to meet up with his friends.
“We thought he was just playing soccer,” his stepmother said. “They usually play from 8 to 10, and we saw him earlier that evening, full of energy.”
But as the clock ticked past 10 p.m., concern quickly turned to panic.
“We weren’t worried at first,” she said, “but then we got a call from one of his friends.”
Adolfo had fallen from the roof of an M train at the Forest Ave. subway stop near 67th Ave. in Ridgewood
“He was so full of life,” the stepmother said. “He had so many friends and dreams. It just doesn’t feel real that he’s gone.”