Wednesday 19 October 2022 08:25 PM At least eight people have been murdered on NYC's subway system this year trends now
Crime on New York City's subway system has claimed at least eight lives in the past year - including a father-of-three who was slashed in the neck while protecting a female police officer from a homeless thug.
Despite the senseless attacks on innocent straphangers, NYC Mayor Eric Adams earlier this week claimed that there was only a 'perception' that crime was 'out of control' despite a 31% surge year-on-year. Last year, there were six murders on the subway.
Father-of-three Tommy Bailey was slashed in the neck by a homeless man on the L train to Atlantic Ave Station in Brooklyn on September 30 around 9pm. At the time, he was trying to intervene when Alvin Charles started harassing a female NYPD officer.
During an argument between the pair, Charles pulled out a knife and stabbed the 43-year-old stemfitter in the neck.
'I just felt horrible. I mean nobody should ever have to die that way. It's so sad. Especially leaving behind three young kids. I mean, what is that family to do now? The loss of the breadwinner. I mean, it's just life changing for them in a really bad way,' Bailey's friend Bill Abbate told Fox News Digital.
'To have to take your life into your own hands by just going to work or going to the grocery store or to a doctor appointment, not knowing if you're going to make it home. That's very scary.'
Police arrested Charles, who had previously faced assault charges for stabbing another man last year. He has been walking free ever since being allowed out when a judge denied that he be held on $50,000.
Tommy Bailey, 43, was onboard the L train to Atlantic Ave Station in Brooklyn when he got into an argument with homeless passenger Alvin Charles, who was harassing a cop on September 30. The homeless man pulled out a knife and slashed Bailey in the throat
Bailey was a father of three and remembered as a hardworking man
Homeless man Alvin Charles (center) was arrested and charged with Bailey's murder
Bailey's death is just one of a string of senseless murders on the subway - three of which have occured in the first three weeks of October.
On October 17, Heriberto Quintana, 48, was hit by train after during an altercation with Carlos Garcia, 50, at the Jackson Heights-Roosevelt Avenue station located in Queens. It's unclear whether he was pushed, or whether he stumbled onto the tracks during the argument over a dropped cellphone.
A week earlier, 15-year-old Jayjon Burnett was shot dead by a known gangbanger just on a Far Rockaway A train just days before his 16th birthday.
Keyondre Russell, 18, was charged for Burnett's murder in second degree and two counts of criminal possession of a weapon.
Assistant District Attorney Christine Occhiogrosso called the murder a 'gang related incident.'
Charles Moore, 38, and a father, was stabbed in the back and chest after leaving a northbound four train in the Bronx at 10.30pm on October 6. Saquan Lemons, 27, was arrested for allegedly stabbing Moore. The attack was random and unprovoked, according to police.
