A man found stabbed to death aboard a Manhattan subway car over the weekend was the victim of a previous hate attack that happened in the Bronx last year.
Tavon Silver, 32, was discovered bleeding profusely from numerous stab wounds sitting in a rear car of a Brooklyn-bound No. 4 train at 14th St/Union Square station just after 4 a.m. Saturday, according to the police.
Paramedics rushed him to Bellevue Hospital in Kips Bay, where he died, cops said.
He had survived another brutal attack on a Bronx subway car in June last year – nearly three weeks after the knife attack that claimed his life.
Runadieo Jordan, 52, asked the 31-year-old victim to turn down his music on a Wakefield-bound No. 2 train approaching Third Avenue/East. The 149th Street station around 1 a.m. Wednesday, June 1, cops said.
“Turn the music down, f—-t!” Jordan reportedly screamed, before stabbing Silver in the right forearm.
Police nabbed the assailant after an NYPD Transit officer spotted him on a Bronx-bound No. 6 train at Brooklyn Bridge Station the day after the stabbing.
Jordan, who has been charged with assault as a hate crime, criminal possession of a weapon and aggravated harassment as a hate crime, is due to appear in Bronx Supreme Court next month in connection with the beatings. knife from last year.
Hate crimes in the city are down 31.3% from 310 last year to 213 this year, but arrests of people caught on public transport with ‘sharp instruments’ fell from 358 a year last at 572 this year, according to NYPD statistics.
It is illegal to carry sharp tools or weapons on public transportation, cops said.