Claude White homeless NYC man charged in stabbing murder of Tavon Silver on NYC subway as New Yorkers are increasingly left on edge following an increase in crimes riding the city’s public transport.
Riding NYC’s subway is never for the faint hearted… A homeless man has been charged in the fatal stabbing of a passenger aboard a Manhattan subway over the weekend.
Claude White, 33, was arrested Monday around 5:15 p.m. and charged with the murder of Bronx resident Tavon Silver, according to the NYPD.
White allegedly attacked the 32-year-old victim following a dispute on a southbound 4 train that was pulling into the 14th Street/Union Square station around 4 a.m. Saturday, police said.
Victim survived NYC stabbing year ago
The stabbing comes a year after the victim surviving a separate stabbing last year in the Bronx. At the time, Silver was found unconscious on the train with multiple stab wounds.
He cried out to a conductor that he’d been stabbed before passing out, authorities stated in a previous report.
Silver wasn’t so fortunate this time round, with the passenger pronounced dead at Bellevue Hospital hours after Saturday morning’s attack.
White was also charged with criminal possession of a weapon, cops said.
It remained unclear what led to the fatal stabbing which has since led to hardened NYC commuters increasingly on edge in the face of ongoing violent crime in the city and subways.
New Yorkers increasingly on edge
But there’s more.
The homeless man was charged earlier this month in a Manhattan bank robbery where he allegedly passed a note to a worker demanding money, the nypost reported, citing law enforcement sources.
White had six previous arrests before Monday, sources said.
Silver was the previous victim of an alleged hate crime on a Bronx subway after he was knifed in the arm in June 2022, the nydailynews reported.
He told Fox 5 last year from his hospital bed that the suspect in that case directed a homophobic slur at him and his fiancé before stabbing him.
‘Next thing I know, like, I had a hole in my arm. Like blood was gushing everywhere,’ Silver previously said.
Silver stated that he was happy to be alive following the ‘scary ordeal.’
‘I want to see more gay people on the 2 train for me,’ Silver told Fox 5, adding. ‘I’m not gonna change my life just because of this.’
The suspect in that June 2022 case, 52-year-old Runadieo Jordan, has a court date scheduled for next month, according to records.
Jordan was charged with two counts of assault as a hate crime, criminal possession of a weapon and aggravated harassment as a hate crime following his arrest by cops last year.
Welcome to a brave NYC…
