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Bairon Hernandez is arraigned in Manhattan Supreme Court after he was arrested for allegedly pushing 83-year-old Richard Williams on to the subway tracks, killing him.<\/p>\n
Photo by Curtis Means for Daily Mail\/Pool<\/p>\n
The Manhattan District Attorney indicted a man accused of shoving two people onto the train tracks for murder after one of the victims who was 83 years old died from his injuries.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Bairon Hernandez, 34, was charged with second-degree murder once Richard Williams, his octogenarian victim, died from his injuries nine days after he was shoved onto the tracks at the Lexington Avenue\u201363rd Street station.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe announced\u2026 today an indictment against Mr. Hernandez, who allegedly shoved two people into the subway tracks at the 63rd and Lexington subway station in what we allege is an unprovoked heinous attack,\u201d District Attorney Alvin Bragg told press, adding in a statement. \u201cI hope the survivor continues to heal from this abhorrent assault, and my thoughts are with the loved ones of Mr. Williams who are mourning his tragic loss.\u201d<\/p>\n
Bragg has also charged Hernandez with attempted assault in the first degree and assault in the second degree. Hernandez appeared in court on Monday afternoon and pleaded not guilty to the charges. Criminal Court Judge Curtis Farber denied Hernandez bail while awaiting trial. The murder charge carries a potential 25 years to life sentence.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Hernandez allegedly walked past a 30-year-old man on the Upper East Side F\/Q subway platform and shoved him into the subway tracks with his body. The man landed on his knees and injured his shoulder, but survived.<\/p>\n
Hernandez then allegedly approached Williams, who was walking with a cane from behind, and used both hands to forcibly push him into the tracks.\n<\/p>\n
Williams landed on his face and suffered a brain bleed. He never regained consciousness and died from his injuries on March 17.\n<\/p>\n
Williams\u2019 granddaughter, Jaquelyn Bilog, told reporters after the arraignment that he would be remembered for \u201chis warmth, his integrity and the deep love he gave so freely.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cNo legal proceeding can restore the life that was taken or the future that was lost to our family,\u201d\u00a0 Bilog said. \u201cIt was our sincere hope that awareness and meaningful action could prevent other families from experiencing a similar loss.\u201d<\/p>\n
Bragg told reporters after the court appearance that numerous witnesses attest to the fact that Hernandez pushed Williams with force and that there is video evidence of the incident. Hernandez\u2019s attorney Mitchell Schuman did not immediately respond to comment.<\/p>\n
During the court appearance, the Assistant District Attorney Julie Nobel mentioned that there are pending immigration offenses that Hernandez, who is an undocumented Honduran immigrant, is facing. Bragg declined to address Hernandez\u2019s immigration status as being outside the scope of the case.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Bairon Hernandez is arraigned in Manhattan Supreme Court after he was arrested for allegedly pushing 83-year-old Richard Williams…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":180056,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[75,84,83,9,24,63],"class_list":["post-180055","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-manhattan","tag-manhattan","tag-manhattan-headlines","tag-manhattan-news","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/180055","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=180055"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/180055\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/180056"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=180055"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=180055"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=180055"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}