{"id":119620,"date":"2026-02-02T05:50:07","date_gmt":"2026-02-02T05:50:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/119620\/"},"modified":"2026-02-02T05:50:07","modified_gmt":"2026-02-02T05:50:07","slug":"bronx-man-25-arrested-for-homophobic-hate-crime-attack-in-harlem-station-2-years-later","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/119620\/","title":{"rendered":"Bronx man, 25, arrested for homophobic hate crime attack in Harlem station \u2014 2 years later"},"content":{"rendered":"

A 25-year-old Bronx man was arrested Sunday \u2014 more than two years after he allegedly punched another man while hurling homophobic slurs at him in a Manhattan subway station, police said.<\/p>\n

Tavaughn Thompson was first busted over an unrelated incident Sunday, and later identified as the suspect-at-large in the hate crime case from late 2023, the NYPD said.<\/p>\n

\"StreetIn late December 2023, a man was attacked inside the the 125th Street subway station on West 125th Street and Saint Nicholas Avenue in Harlem. google<\/p>\n

Police for over two years had been searching for the bigoted creep who allegedly became violent after spotting a straphanger he believed had taken a sneaky photo of him inside the 125th Street subway station in Harlem on Dec. 29, 2023.<\/p>\n

The hateful suspect allegedly punched the man in the face multiple times while hissing \u201cDelete that f\u2013king photo of me, f\u2014-t,\u201d the New York Daily News<\/a> reported.<\/p>\n

The assailant bolted from the station, on West 125th Street and Saint Nicholas Avenue.<\/p>\n

The victim, who was not publicly identified, suffered minor injuries.<\/p>\n

Police at the time released photos of the wanted perp, described as a man around 5 feet 10 inches tall weighing approximately 180 pounds and last seen wearing a black jacket.<\/p>\n

Thompson was charged with assault and aggravated harassment, both as hate crimes in connection with the 2023 attack. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A 25-year-old Bronx man was arrested Sunday \u2014 more than two years after he allegedly punched another man…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":119621,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[128,469,10685,57,9,24,63,103,129,131,130,58],"class_list":["post-119620","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-the-bronx","tag-bronx","tag-harlem","tag-hate-crimes","tag-metro","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc","tag-nypd","tag-the-bronx","tag-the-bronx-headlines","tag-the-bronx-news","tag-us-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/119620","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=119620"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/119620\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/119621"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=119620"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=119620"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=119620"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}