{"id":787278,"date":"2026-05-10T20:38:12","date_gmt":"2026-05-10T20:38:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/787278\/"},"modified":"2026-05-10T20:38:12","modified_gmt":"2026-05-10T20:38:12","slug":"footage-captures-horrific-moment-maniac-fatally-shoves-retired-elderly-teacher-76-down-nyc-subway-stairs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/787278\/","title":{"rendered":"Footage captures horrific moment maniac fatally shoves retired elderly teacher, 76, down NYC subway stairs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Footage captures the horrific moment a nut fatally <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2026\/05\/10\/us-news\/grinning-accused-nyc-subway-shover-rhamell-burke-was-broadway-dancer\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">shoved a beloved 76-year-old former teacher down a flight of concrete stairs<\/a> at\u00a0 a Manhattan subway station.<\/p>\n<p>The deeply disturbing clip shows retired elderly educator\u00a0 Ross Falzone walking toward the 18th Street subway station in Chelsea around 3:30 p.m. Thursday when his attacker walks up behind him without warning and pushes\u00a0 him with both hands \u2014 sending the helpless victim plummeting to his death.<\/p>\n<p>Rhamell Burke, 32, smiles as he\u2019s arraigned Saturday for the attack. Michael Nagle for NY Post<\/p>\n<p>The flailing victim\u00a0 disappears into the lights at the bottom of the stairs \u2014 and was later pronounced dead at Bellevue Hospital after suffering a severe head injury.<\/p>\n<p>After the attack, his accused\u00a0 killer is seen casually walking away and even signals traffic to stop as he crosses the street and disappears into the night.<\/p>\n<p>The harrowing shove was caught on surveillance video obtained by The Post. Obtained by the NY Post<\/p>\n<p>The victim can be see falling down the stairwell after the shove. Obtained by the NY Post<\/p>\n<p>Police later charged Rhamell Burke, a 32-year-old onetime successful Broadway dancer, with murder in the senseless attack. He is being held without bail at Rikers Island.<\/p>\n<p>The goon initially appeared in court just hours after the fatal shove on an unrelated assault case \u2014 but walked free when no one recognized him from surveillance footage.<\/p>\n<p>Subway shove victim Ross Falzone Obtained by NY Post<\/p>\n<p>He was later spotted\u00a0 at Penn Station and arrested in Falcone\u2019s death.<\/p>\n<p>This is a breaking story. Please check back for updates.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Footage captures the horrific moment a nut fatally shoved a beloved 76-year-old former teacher down a flight of&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":787279,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5122],"tags":[5229,12938,5248,9904,405,403,5226,5225,5228,5227,28714,81537,67,586,132,5230,68,1154,2969],"class_list":{"0":"post-787278","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-york","8":"tag-america","9":"tag-attacks","10":"tag-metro","11":"tag-mta","12":"tag-new-york","13":"tag-new-york-city","14":"tag-newyork","15":"tag-newyorkcity","16":"tag-ny","17":"tag-nyc","18":"tag-subway","19":"tag-subway-shoves","20":"tag-united-states","21":"tag-united-states-of-america","22":"tag-unitedstates","23":"tag-unitedstatesofamerica","24":"tag-us","25":"tag-us-news","26":"tag-usa"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/116552211327142562","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/787278","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=787278"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/787278\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/787279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=787278"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=787278"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=787278"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}