Legendary Florida graffiti artist struck and killed by Brightline train [View all]
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"...
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