{"id":231644,"date":"2026-05-14T17:25:08","date_gmt":"2026-05-14T17:25:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/231644\/"},"modified":"2026-05-14T17:25:08","modified_gmt":"2026-05-14T17:25:08","slug":"man-68-accused-of-killing-subway-rider-on-bronx-train-nypd","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/231644\/","title":{"rendered":"Man, 68, accused of killing subway rider on Bronx train: NYPD"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>THE BRONX, N.Y. (PIX11) \u2014 A 68-year-old man is accused of killing a subway rider during an argument on a Bronx train early Wednesday morning, police said.<\/p>\n<p>Authorities found the unidentified man unconscious on the floor in a subway car in the 242nd Street- Van Cortland Park station at around 3:05 a.m., according to the NYPD.<\/p>\n<p><a data-ylk=\"slk:Discover more local reporting on our homepage;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas;\" href=\"https:\/\/pix11.com\/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">\u00a0Discover more local reporting on our homepage\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The victim was rushed to the hospital but could not be saved, police said.<\/p>\n<p>The suspect, Keith Plummer, 68, allegedly attacked the man during a fight inside a southbound No. 1 train car, according to the NYPD. It was unclear how the victim was killed.<\/p>\n<p>Plummer was arrested on Wednesday and charged with manslaughter, police said. His arraignment was pending on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>Authorities said Plummer, a Queens resident, has prior arrests for drugs, forgery, and robbery.<\/p>\n<p>Mira Wassef is an award-winning reporter who has covered news and sports in the NYC area for more than a decade. She joined the PIX11 News digital team in 2022. See more of her work <a data-ylk=\"slk:here.;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas;\" href=\"https:\/\/pix11.com\/author\/mira-wassef\/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">here.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Copyright 2026 Nexstar Media, Inc. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.<\/p>\n<p><a data-ylk=\"slk:For the latest news, weather, sports, and streaming video, head to PIX11.;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas;\" href=\"https:\/\/pix11.com\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">\u00a0For the latest news, weather, sports, and streaming video, head to PIX11.\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"THE BRONX, N.Y. (PIX11) \u2014 A 68-year-old man is accused of killing a subway rider during an argument&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":231645,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[63391,128,90840,9,24,63,103,129,131,130,90842,90841,39242],"class_list":["post-231644","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-the-bronx","tag-242nd-street","tag-bronx","tag-keith-plummer","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc","tag-nypd","tag-the-bronx","tag-the-bronx-headlines","tag-the-bronx-news","tag-train-car","tag-van-cortland-park","tag-wednesday-morning"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/231644","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=231644"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/231644\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/231645"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=231644"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=231644"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=231644"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}