Man stabbed to death on NYC subway survived similar attack last year

A New York City man who was stabbed to death on the subway had previously been the victim of a homophobic hate crime on the crime-ridden system. Tavon Silver (pictured left), 32, was found unconscious on a southbound 4-train at the 14th Street Union Square station early Saturday morning and later pronounced dead by police. It has since emerged Silver was stabbed in the arm in June 2022 during a homophobic attack – that time on a northbound 2-train near the 3rd Avenue-149th Street station in Melrose in the Bronx.

Silver and his fiancé had been on the train playing loud music when another man, identified as Runadieo Jordan (pictured), 52, yelled a homophobic slur at the pair. After continuing with the insults, Jordan stabbed Silver, leaving him with a severe arm injury. Silver spoke to Fox 5 shortly after the attack where he explained what happened during the incident. ‘Next thing I know, like, I had a hole in my arm. Like blood was gushing everywhere,’ Silver said.

‘It was one straight cut, and he took a giant chunk of my wrist. He literally cut my wrist off. So, like, if you look straight through, you can see my bone.’ He described how Jordan stabbed him, causing significant bleeding, injuring his wrist. Jordan remained undeterred and walked by the pair continuing to use derogatory slurs as Silver lay on the floor unconscious. 

‘He came walking by us as I was losing consciousness on the floor, bleeding out. And he just walked right by us, and he was like, “Here you go, you stupid [Expletive],” Silver (pictured) recounted. Jordan was charged at the time with two counts of assault as a hate crime, criminal possession of a weapon and aggravated harassment as a hate crime.

During Saturday’s stabbing, Silver managed to call out to a conductor for help before he lost consciousness. Authorities are investigating whether he had already boarded the train having been injured or if the stabbing actually occurred during the subway ride. 

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