Man dies when hood caught in MBTA escalator The Associated Press March 02, 2005 A 34-year-old man from El Salvador was strangled to death last week when the hood of his sweatshirt became entangled in an escalator at the Porter Square subway station in Cambridge, officials said. Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority officials, who made the Feb. 21 incident public on Tuesday, said MBTA police and state safety investigators have ruled the death an accident. Francisco Portillo, who lived in East Boston and worked at a Cambridge restaurant, was either sitting or laying down on the escalator when his hood became...