Overview
- Prosecutors secured a second-degree murder indictment for Bairon Hernandez, with arraignment set for March 30 in Manhattan criminal court.
- The Upper East Side attack, which happened March 8 at the Lexington Avenue–63rd Street station, involved two men shoved from the platform onto the tracks.
- Richard Williams, 83, suffered a brain bleed and later died, and the medical examiner ruled his death a homicide on March 25.
- The younger victim, identified as John Pena, 30, survived and helped pull Williams back onto the platform before a train reached the station.
- Investigators point to witness video and cellphone footage documenting the push, and officials say Hernandez is a Honduran national with prior illegal entry convictions and four deportations.