{"id":160652,"date":"2026-03-11T19:26:09","date_gmt":"2026-03-11T19:26:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/160652\/"},"modified":"2026-03-11T19:26:09","modified_gmt":"2026-03-11T19:26:09","slug":"subway-push-victim-films-from-tracks-as-bystander-fends-off-attacker-who-left-83-year-old-fighting-for-life","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/160652\/","title":{"rendered":"Subway push victim films from tracks as bystander fends off attacker who left 83-year-old fighting for life"},"content":{"rendered":"

Chilling cellphone footage taken by a victim of a random subway shove shows the moment a migrant who allegedly shoved him and an 83-year-old man <\/a>calmly walk away after the unprovoked violence.<\/p>\n

Video obtained by The Post shows Honduran national Bairon Hernandez, 34, strolling along the platform after allegedly pushing an 83-year-old man and a second younger man onto the tracks at a station on the Upper East Side around noon Sunday.<\/p>\n

A bystander is seen confronting Hernandez before going over to the tracks to try to help the two passengers on the tracks at the Lexington Avenue-63rd Street station.<\/p>\n

Subway shove suspect Bairon Hernandez seen on the platform in a red hood in a video filmed by one of the victims. Obtained by NYPost<\/p>\n

A bystander quickly confronted Hernandez after he allegedly pushed two people onto the tracks in Manhattan. Obtained by NYPost<\/p>\n

A bystander checking the condition of the two victims. Obtained by NYPost<\/p>\n

Hernandez didn\u2019t interact with either of the victims before the attacks. Obtained by NYPost<\/p>\n

Hernandez was arrested<\/a> at about 5 a.m. Tuesday at a Brooklyn homeless shelter and charged with attempted murder, attempted assault, assault and reckless endangerment.<\/p>\n

Grandfather and Air Force veteran Richard Williams, the older of the two victims, is still fighting for his life at New York-Presbyterian Hospital Weill Cornell.<\/p>\n

\u201cMy father, Richard, is on a respirator in the ICU in the hospital. That\u2019s all we are going to say,\u201d one of Williams\u2019 daughters told The Post on Tuesday.<\/p>\n

Hernandez reportedly didn\u2019t say a word throughout and hadn\u2019t interacted with his victims before the incident.<\/p>\n

Detectives remove Bairon Hernandez, 34, from the 19th Precinct at 153 E. 67th St. in Manhattan after he was arrested for pushing two people onto the subway tracks on Sunday. William Miller<\/p>\n

Hernandez was charged with attempted murder, attempted assault, assault and reckless endangerment. DCPI<\/p>\n

The younger victim helped Williams off the tracks and fellow straphangers got the pair back onto the platform before a train came.<\/p>\n

Williams was waiting on the downtown platform for the F and Q trains when police say Hernandez suddenly shoved him and the second man onto the tracks.<\/p>\n

He recently celebrated his 55th wedding anniversary and had remained active in his retirement after a career making bulletproof equipment, a family member told the New York Daily News<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Richard Williams, 83, was one of the two subway shoving victim. Obtained by NYPost<\/p>\n

It comes after the NYPD revealed transit crime spiked nearly 20% in February<\/a> as cold weather policies prevented cops from booting rule-breaking passengers from the subway.<\/p>\n

More than 190 offenses were reported on the network last month, an 18.5% jump from February 2025, NYPD data show.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe increase coincided with record cold temperatures and snow in February, when ridership patterns shifted and the department paused ejections from the transit system for violations of the rules during the extreme weather,\u201d the NYPD said in a statement.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Chilling cellphone footage taken by a victim of a random subway shove shows the moment a migrant who…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":160653,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[3283,57,3411,9,24,63,122,124,123,615,1686,466,58],"class_list":["post-160652","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-queens","tag-arrests","tag-metro","tag-migrants","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc","tag-queens","tag-queens-headlines","tag-queens-news","tag-subway","tag-subway-shoves","tag-upper-east-side","tag-us-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/160652","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=160652"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/160652\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/160653"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=160652"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=160652"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=160652"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}