Overview
- Police say the men were strangers and that a fight on a Bronx 1 train early Wednesday left one man unconscious who later died at a hospital.
- Keith Plummer, 68, was arraigned Thursday in Bronx Criminal Court on a manslaughter charge and was held on $200,000 cash bail, prosecutors said.
- Prosecutors identified the victim as Cranston Smith and said Plummer punched him and pressed on his neck during the struggle.
- Investigators have not detailed the victim’s injuries and have not released a precise cause of death as the inquiry continues.
- The killing occurred in the 50th Precinct, where homicides are up this year even as citywide killings and major transit crime have declined, according to NYPD data.