At least eight people have been murdered on NYC’s subway system this year – Crime on New York City‘s subway system has claimed at least eight lives in the past year – including a father-of-three who was slashed in the neck while protecting a female police officer from a homeless thug.
Despite the senseless attacks on innocent straphangers, NYC Mayor Eric Adams earlier this week claimed that there was only a ‘perception’ that crime was ‘out of control’ despite a 31% surge year-on-year. Last year, there were six murders on the subway.
Father-of-three Tommy Bailey was slashed in the neck by a homeless man on the L train to Atlantic Ave Station in Brooklyn on September 30 around 9pm. At the time, he was trying to intervene when Alvin Charles started harassing a female NYPD officer.
During an argument between the pair, Charles pulled out a knife and stabbed the 43-year-old stemfitter in the neck.
‘I just felt horrible. I mean nobody should ever have to die that way. It’s so sad. Especially leaving behind three young kids. I mean, what is that family to do now? The loss of the breadwinner. I mean, it’s just life changing for them in a really bad way,’ Bailey’s friend Bill Abbate told Fox News Digital.
At least eight people have been murdered on NYC’s subway system this year
‘To have to take your life into your own hands by just going to work or going to the grocery store or to a doctor appointment, not knowing if you’re going to make it home. That’s very scary.’
Police arrested Charles, who had previously faced assault charges for stabbing another man last year. He has been walking free ever since being allowed out when a judge denied that he be held on $50,000.
Tommy Bailey, 43, was onboard the L train to Atlantic Ave Station in Brooklyn when he got into an argument with homeless passenger Alvin Charles, who was harassing a cop on September 30. The homeless man pulled out a knife and slashed Bailey in the throat
Bailey was a father of three and remembered as a hardworking man
Homeless man Alvin Charles (center) was arrested and charged with Bailey’s murder
Bailey’s death is just one of a string of senseless murders on the subway – three of which have occured in the first three weeks of October.
On October 17, Heriberto Quintana, 48, was hit by train after during an altercation with Carlos Garcia, 50, at the Jackson Heights-Roosevelt Avenue station located in Queens. It’s unclear whether he was pushed, or whether he stumbled onto the tracks during the argument over a dropped cellphone.
A week earlier, 15-year-old Jayjon Burnett was shot dead by a known gangbanger just on a Far Rockaway A train just days before his 16th birthday.
Keyondre Russell, 18, was charged for Burnett’s murder in second degree and two counts of criminal possession of a weapon.
Assistant District Attorney Christine Occhiogrosso called the murder a ‘gang related incident.’
Charles Moore, 38, and a father, was stabbed in the back and chest after leaving a northbound four train in the Bronx at 10.30pm on October 6. Saquan Lemons, 27, was arrested for allegedly stabbing Moore. The attack was random and unprovoked, according to police.
Jayjon Burnett was allegedly shot by Keyondre Russell, 18, says before his 16th birthday on October 14. The shooting occurred after a dispute with two groups on a Far Rockaway A train in NYC
Charles Moore, 38, and a father, was stabbed in the back and chest after leaving a northbound four train in the Bronx at 10.30pm on October 6. Moore is pictured to the right and is with his family
Marcus Bethea, 24, was shot and killed at the Jamaica Center subway station in April while working as a subway card swiper.
Daniel Enriquez, 48, was riding on the Q train that was heading over the Manhattan Bridge, when a gunman opened fire without warning on May 22.
The Goldman Sachs employee never took the subway, his partner Adam Pollack told DailyMail.com at the time. But an Uber to and from Williamsburg would have cost him $80. Andrew Abdullah, 25, was arrested in that attack.
Another subway bawl located at the 137 street – City College train station – on June 9 left a 14-year-old dead from a stab wound to his stomach. Police recovered a knife and broomstick thought to have been involved in the crime.
Michelle Alyssa Go, 49, was killed on January 15 when she was shoved onto the subway tracks on the southbound N/Q/R/W platform at West 42nd Street and Broadway at around 9.40am in a senseless, unprovoked attack.
Simon Martial, 61, was arrested and charged with Go’s death a day later. He was sent to a psychiatric facility after prosecutors declined to challenge a mental evaluation that found him unfit to stand trial.
On New Year’s Day, Roland Huston was killed after jumping onto the tracks to rescue a man who’d been attacked by a group of knife-wielding thugs. Two boys, 16 and 17, were arrested for murder and gang assault weeks later.
Marcus Bethea, 24, was shot and killed at the Jamaica Center subway station in April while working as a subway card swiper
Daniel Enriquez, 48, was riding on the Q train that was heading over the Manhattan Bridge, when a gunman opened fire without warning on May 22
Michelle Alyssa Go, 49, was killed on January 15 when she was shoved onto the subway tracks on the southbound by Simon Martial
On New Year’s Day, Roland Huston was killed after jumping onto the tracks to rescue a man who’d been attacked by a group of teenagers
Despite the mounting number of crime victims, NYC Mayor Eric Adams said on Monday that there is only a ‘perception’ that crime in the Big Apple is out of control.
‘That’s the combination I must deal with, that perception and the actual crime. But we can’t get away with the fact that we have 3.5 million people using our subway system,’ he said.
Adams said there are an average of six crimes per day on the subways and insisted the crime rate was fine.
The mayor admitted there are ‘too many guns’ on the streets of New York but said police have done a great job at confiscating thousands of firearms.
‘We have to be honest about that and those average of six crimes a day is not giving the impression that it is out of control,’ Adams said.
District Attorney Alvin Bragg previously pledged to crackdown on subway crime with the introduction of a designated, train task force. However, the impacts of those are unclear.
Recent data shows subway murders have risen to their highest in 25 years, despite plummeting ridership. Between 1997 and 2020, there were never more than five murders a year on New York City subway trains.
That number rose to six in 2020, eight in 2021 and it’s already at eight with two-and-half months left of the year.
Felony crime on the subway is up by 42 percent, but ridership has almost halved.
Murders in the city are down by 14.8 percent with 341 reported in 2022 to date in comparison to 400 last year.
Overall crime in the city is up 31.1 percent with felony assaults and robbery rates remaining high.
