Legendary Florida graffiti artist struck and killed by Brightline train

[Zorro]

A legendary Miami graffiti artist known for tagging overhead signs on Interstate 95 was killed on May 13 by an oncoming Brightline train.

Eric Alan Hirt, 47, was struck and killed at 12:26 a.m. while walking on the tracks in Biscayne Park, Miami-Dade Sheriff’s Office Detective Joseph Peguero Rivera said in an email. The Miami-Dade Medical Examiner’s Office confirmed that the train was a Brightline. The office is still investigating. Brightline officials declined to comment.

Known as “Eson,” Hirt was a member of the MSG Crew, or Miami Style Gods, a group of street graffiti artists that formed in the 1990s. Hirt — with crew founder Crome — appeared in a 2018 documentary by Vice, “The Last Vandals,” recounting their daring vandalism missions, with police at their heels, and reflecting on how graffiti became culturally acceptable and commercially embraced, in Wynwood.

Video footage in the film shows him climbing across metal scaffolding to “bomb” a street sign hanging over I-95, emblazoning it with his name.

“Graffiti to me is like a sickness,” he said in the film. “I can’t drive down the street without wanting to hit every curb, pole, sign, wall. It’s just programmed in my head.”

https://www.tampabay.com/news/florida/2026/05/25/eson-graffiti-artist-killed-by-train-brightline/

Shoulda picked a different "hobby"...

[rampartd]

1. i felt a sense of karma in his end

i have seen good graffiti, but as an urban home owner i'd make spray paint a controlled substance.

[dalton99a]

2. His masterpiece:

[republianmushroom]

3. RIP, man

[newdeal2]

4. That train line is a death trap

The amount of death and destruction in less than 10 years is unbelievable. Except it's Florida and they don't believe in regulations.

[obamanut2012]

6. No, it isn't - it's Darwin

The people hitting the rain are doing what they aren't supposed to be doing. Walking on trains, riding bikes and cars around the arms. In Delray, a fucking FIRETRUCK drove around the arms.

[obamanut2012]

5. He hit the train, the train didn't hit him

[Mysterian]

7. Grafitti sucks

"Grafitti artists" can go to hell.

[Hey Joe]

8. These graffiti "artists" beshit the entire country

with their selfish, immature scribblings to the detriment of all inhabitants whose tax dollars go into maintaining and cleaning up the mess they make of the environment.
I don’t deny that some have talent, but they shouldn’t be defacing property uninvited and unwanted.