{"id":180656,"date":"2026-03-31T09:58:42","date_gmt":"2026-03-31T09:58:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/180656\/"},"modified":"2026-03-31T09:58:42","modified_gmt":"2026-03-31T09:58:42","slug":"news-12-brooklyn-man-indicted-in-manhattan-subway-shoving-that-killed-83-year-old-veteran","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/180656\/","title":{"rendered":"News 12 | Brooklyn | Man indicted in Manhattan subway shoving that killed 83-year-old veteran"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A man accused of shoving two people on to subway tracks in Manhattan is facing charges for murder, assault and attempted assault.<\/p>\n<p>Officials say Bairon Hernandez, 34, walked past a 30-year-old man on the subway platform and pushed him on March 8.<\/p>\n<p>The victim landed on his knees and sustained an injury to his shoulder.<\/p>\n<p>Hernandez then approached Richard Williams from behind and pushed him into the tracks, according to authorities.<\/p>\n<p>The 83-year-old Air Force veteran suffered a brain bleed and later died of his injuries on March 17. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A man accused of shoving two people on to subway tracks in Manhattan is facing charges for murder,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":180657,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[397,75,84,83,259,9,24,63,1657,49157],"class_list":["post-180656","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-manhattan","tag-indictment","tag-manhattan","tag-manhattan-headlines","tag-manhattan-news","tag-murder","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc","tag-subway-station","tag-subway-tracks"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/180656","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=180656"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/180656\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/180657"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=180656"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=180656"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=180656"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}