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.
Mamdani is more concerned with protecting people like Bairon Hernandez than he is with protecting people like Richard Williams.
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