Teen killed in Central Park horse carriage accident was celebrating high school graduation

The Mahajan family was on the third day of their first trip to New York City when tragedy struck.“We never knew that this was the last day of his life,” Deepak Mahajan told NBC News on Friday about his son Romanch, who died Wednesday after he fell out of a horse-drawn carriage in Central Park

The Mahajan family was on the third day of their first trip to New York City when tragedy struck.

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“We never knew that this was the last day of his life,” Deepak Mahajan told NBC News on Friday about his son Romanch, who died Wednesday after he fell out of a horse-drawn carriage in Central Park.

The family’s 10-day vacation to the United States was meant to celebrate Romanch’s recent high school graduation and acceptance to a university in India.