{"id":202815,"date":"2026-04-19T22:06:08","date_gmt":"2026-04-19T22:06:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/202815\/"},"modified":"2026-04-19T22:06:08","modified_gmt":"2026-04-19T22:06:08","slug":"bully-who-beat-nyc-subway-rider-while-shouting-homophobic-slurs-busted-trying-to-beat-fare-sources","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/202815\/","title":{"rendered":"Bully who beat NYC subway rider while shouting homophobic slurs busted trying to beat fare: sources"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A bully who attacked a subway rider while yelling homophobic slurs was busted after three months on the loose for trying to skip a train fare, cops and sources said.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Yeshayahu Carraway, 41, had attacked a 24-year-old man who he followed off a northbound L train at the Lorimer Street stop in Williamsburg around 5:00 a.m. on Jan. 18, cops said.<\/p>\n<p>Carraway was armed with a knife as he allegedly screamed homophobic slurs and pummeled the victim \u2013 striking his head and body, police said.\u00a0The maniac then ran off, according to cops.<\/p>\n<p><img style=\"aspect-ratio:0.8257329;display:block\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-modal-image=\"39134938\" width=\"487\" height=\"590\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/RMA-203-26-Hate-Crime-Assault-94-PctTD33-011826-photo-2.jpg\" alt=\"Still image of a man wanted in a hate crime assault.\" class=\"wp-image-39134938\"  \/>41-year-old Yeshayahu Carraway was arrest for a homophobic attack committed three months ago after he was caught trying to duck the subway fare in the Bronx, cops said.  NYPD<\/p>\n<p>The 24-year-old man suffered minor injuries, though he refused medical attention at the scene, according to authorities.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>But Carraway\u2019s misdeeds caught up with him three months later.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><img style=\"aspect-ratio:1.11715481;display:block\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-modal-image=\"39134946\" width=\"534\" height=\"478\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/RMA-203-26-Hate-Crime-Assault-94-PctTD33-011826-photo-1.jpg\" alt=\"Man with dreadlocks wearing a black durag and black jacket.\" class=\"wp-image-39134946\"  \/>Carraway screamed homophobic slurs at the man while brandishing a knife, and proceeded to thrash him \u2013 before running off in the hateful January attack, police said.\u00a0 NYPD<\/p>\n<p>The intolerant terror was arrested Saturday night at 7:40 p.m. after cops caught him trying to duck the subway fare by entering through the emergency gate at Hunts Point Avenue stop in the Bronx, sources said.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>It was while Carraway was in custody for fare evasion that cops also connected him to the hateful attack, sources said.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The incident wasn\u2019t Carraway\u2019s first run-in with the law.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The brute has been cuffed for putting his hands on people several times before, having been arrested for assault in 2011 and 2017, according to sources.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A bully who attacked a subway rider while yelling homophobic slurs was busted after three months on the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":202816,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[98,303,24003,57,9,56,63,65,64,615,58],"class_list":["post-202815","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york-city","tag-brooklyn","tag-crime","tag-homophobia","tag-metro","tag-new-york","tag-ny","tag-nyc","tag-nyc-headlines","tag-nyc-news","tag-subway","tag-us-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/202815","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=202815"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/202815\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/202816"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=202815"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=202815"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=202815"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}