"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. 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."
"Hernandez was arrested at about 5 a.m. Tuesday at a Brooklyn homeless shelter and charged with attempted murder, attempted assault, assault and reckless endangerment. 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."
"Hernandez reportedly didn't say a word throughout and hadn't interacted with his victims before the incident. The younger victim helped Williams off the tracks and fellow straphangers got the pair back onto the platform before a train came."
On Sunday around noon, Bairon Hernandez allegedly pushed two men onto the tracks at the Lexington Avenue-63rd Street subway station on the Upper East Side. The victims included 83-year-old Richard Williams, an Air Force veteran and grandfather, and a younger man. Cellphone footage shows Hernandez walking calmly along the platform after the incident while a bystander confronts him and attempts to help the victims. The younger victim assisted Williams off the tracks before a train arrived. Hernandez was arrested Tuesday morning at a Brooklyn homeless shelter and charged with attempted murder, attempted assault, assault, and reckless endangerment. Williams remains hospitalized in the ICU on a respirator at New York-Presbyterian Hospital Weill Cornell.
Read at New York Post
Unable to calculate read time
Collection
[
|
...
]