Posted on 03/12/2026 9:05:05 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
Sunday morning a man shoved two people onto the subway tracks in New York City. Both of the people he shoved were complete strangers.
A maniac randomly shoved two straphangers – including an 83-year-old man – onto Upper East Side subway tracks just before noon Sunday, cops and law-enforcement sources said.
The elderly victim and a 31-year-old man were separately waiting for a train at the Lexington Avenue–63rd Street station in Manhattan around 11:40 a.m. when the fiend came up from behind and thrust the two onto the rails below, police said.
Luckily, there was no train coming at the time this happened. The younger man, Jhon Rodriguez, was the first one pushed onto the tracks and he pulled out his phone and filmed the attacker walking casually away.
Cellphone footage taken by a victim of a random subway shove shows the moment a migrant who allegedly shoved him and an 83-year-old man calmly walk away after the unprovoked violence. https://t.co/dsNkmUXYNm pic.twitter.com/KWCqWSQFuc— New York Post (@nypost) March 11, 2026
At the end of that clip, you can see an older man walking in his direction. That's 83-year-old Richard Williams who was pushed onto the track next. Both of the victims were taken to the hospital. Unfortunately, Williams, an Air Force veteran, is still in critical condition.
He allegedly then shoved 83-year-old Air Force veteran Richard Williams onto the tracks, causing serious injuries including bleeding on his brain. Both victims were pulled onto the platform before the next train arrived.
Williams' granddaughter Samantha Loria spoke with CBS News New York, saying he suffered multiple fractures and had bleeding on his brain after his head struck the tracks.
The nutcase responsible for this was identified as Bairon Hernandez, an illegal immigrant who has been deported four times and has a long record.
The illegal Honduran migrant accused of shoving two Manhattan subway riders onto the tracks is a “serial criminal” who had been deported four times before his alleged attack, federal officials said Thursday.
Bairon Hernandez’s rap sheet includes at least 15 past arrests for various charges, including aggravated assault, possession of a weapon and domestic violence, according to the Department of Homeland Security.
He also faced previous charges of simple assault, drug possession and obstruction of police, the feds said.
He was arrested Tuesday and now faces attempted murder charges. His history of illegal entry to the US goes back to 2008.
Posada-Hernandez first entered the country on January 2, 2008, and has been deported four different times, most recently in 2020. He entered illegally a fifth time at an unknown date and location.
This kind of attack on strangers is nothing new in New York City but the numbers this year appear to be headed up.
So far in 2026, there have been nine subway push incidents according to the NYPD. By way of comparison, there were 19 in all of 2025 and 26 in all of 2024.
New York is a sanctuary city. Last month the mayor signed an executive order preventing officers from sharing information with ICE.
Mayor Zohran Mamdani issued an executive order he says will protect New Yorkers from "abusive immigration enforcement" by the Trump administration and uphold sanctuary city laws...
"ICE is more than a rogue agency — it is a manifestation of the abuse of power," Mamdani told the group of faith leaders from across the five boroughs...
"When politicians bar local law enforcement from working with DHS, our law enforcement officers have to have a more visible presence so that we can find and apprehend the criminals let out of jails and back into communities," a DHS spokesperson said.
Mayor Mamdani is more concerned with protecting people like Bairon Hernandez than he is with protecting people like Richard Williams.
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All of us who deplore this violence from the other side are holding in our anger.
How many times did Bairon Hernandez vote for Mamdani?
It’s time to start dropping these vile basstids 30 miles out into the open ocean....waaay past time.
They need to be gone....llooooonnnnnggg gone.
Imagine being a veteran at that age only to see the new “leadership” has facilitated the conquest of this nation by the worst scum of the planet from every turd work s hole....and muslims.
Mamdani will visit the turd proclaiming it is whit supremacy that this turd invader didn’t get the resources, welfare, and mental health treatment he “deserves.”
In earlier times that would have been a joke with generous doses of hyperbole.
Now, I’m afraid, you’re just flatly stating the current state of affairs in NYC.
The Big Apple is rotting from the core out.
I would never use the subway if I visited New York but, if I did, I would hang WAY back from the tracks until the train arrived and the doors opened.
"It’s time to start dropping these vile basstids 30 miles out into the open ocean..."
That's what I call
"PERMANENT deportation"
If history is a guide, in other countries this has eventually lead to vigilantism and death squads.
It’s fun for DC and their schemes for cheap labor, more voters, foreign born judges overruling any attempts to rein it in.... but that road leads directly to something that should not have to happen in America.
One day a Charles Bronson “Death Wish” will appear, and another, and another... .it seems almost inevitable.
What is it about this pushing people to their deaths in the subway? They have been doing it in Europe as well. Horrific.
The NYPD said so far this year, there have been nine subway pushes, which is up compared to three this time last year.
https://abc7ny.com/post/suspect-charged-pushing-2-men-subway-tracks-leaving-brain-dead-country-illegally-honduras/18705854/?
Shou,d be a law that if someone gets deported, and they come back and are caught they do 50 years in prison. Would disuade many id think if they knew they might endmup in prison newrky for life.
Can we not just “unalive” this piece of shit?
Lock him in a car trunk, then light car on fire.
There are plenty of ways to prevent this vermin from committing more crimes since deporting him is clearly not working.
Off with his head.
And his othr one too.
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