{"id":787284,"date":"2026-05-10T20:42:14","date_gmt":"2026-05-10T20:42:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/787284\/"},"modified":"2026-05-10T20:42:14","modified_gmt":"2026-05-10T20:42:14","slug":"grinning-accused-nyc-subway-shover-rhamell-burke-was-broadway-dancer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/787284\/","title":{"rendered":"Grinning accused NYC subway shover Rhamell Burke was Broadway dancer"},"content":{"rendered":"

The grinning maniac charged with fatally shoving a 76-year-old retired teacher down Manhattan subway stairs was once a talented Broadway dancer who fell off the deep end during the pandemic, a pal told The Post.<\/p>\n

Rhamell Burke, 32, posed for pics with movie stars and was in the cast of the hit show \u201cKing Kong\u201d on Broadway \u2014 years before police said he randomly pushed beloved ex-educator<\/a> Ross Falzone down a flight of stairs at a Chelsea subway station last week, the friend said.<\/p>\n

Rhamell Burke, 32, was a dancer on Broadway before he lapsed into mental illness, a friend said. Instagram\/Rhaamell Burke-Missouri<\/p>\n

Burke flashed a sinister grin as he was arraigned in the subway shove death of Ross Falzone.<\/p>\n

Falzone was rushed to Bellevue Hospital, where he was pronounced dead from a head injury.<\/p>\n

\u201cRoss was a dear, gentle man who enjoyed a career as a social worker for special needs children,\u201d a friend of the victim said Sunday. <\/p>\n

\u201cAt an early age he suffered heart issues, so he ate healthy food and stayed in lean shape, only to be killed by a man he could have helped.\u201d<\/p>\n

Burke \u2014 who allegedly followed Falzone into the 18th Street subway station around 3:30 p.m. Thursday before shoving him \u2014 was in court just five hours later<\/a> on an earlier assault case.<\/p>\n

But he initially walked away when no one recognized him as the shoving suspect<\/p>\n

Falzone, 76, was a former school teacher and social worker, a friend told The Post. Obtained by NY Post<\/p>\n

Police later spotted Burke at Penn Station and took him into custody.<\/p>\n

In court, he flashed an evil grin before he was ordered held without bail on murder charges.<\/p>\n

Burke had been arrested by the NYPD four times since February, including for a meltdown at the Seventh Avenue and West 23rd Street station Feb. 14, when cops responded to a report of a man with a shovel who allegedly smashed several doors and threw a trash can onto the tracks.<\/p>\n

Burke, 32, was a talented Broadway dancer, a friend said. Instagram\/Rhaamell Burke-Missouri<\/p>\n

His criminal antics involved a bizarre spiral from the lights of Broadway, where he once performed and appeared to have a bright future in the arts, a friend told The Post.<\/p>\n

The pal said the suspect\u2019s downfall appeared to start during COVID.<\/p>\n

The suspect ws part of the cast of \u201cKing Kong\u201d on Broadway in 2018 and 2019. Instagram\/Rhaamell Burke-Missouri<\/p>\n

Burke is seen with actress Patricia Clarkson in an undated photo. Instagram<\/p>\n

In one undated photo, Burke is seen at Lincoln Center posing with veteran actress Patricia Clarkson, whose credits include the hit HBO series \u201cSix Feet Under,\u201d and flicks such as \u201cShutter Island,\u201d \u201cThe Green Mile\u201d and \u201cJumanji\u201d \u2014 and an Oscar-nominated performance for 2003\u2019s \u201cPieces of April.\u201d<\/p>\n

Burke, reportedly a Long Island University grad, was part of the ensemble for \u201cKing Kong\u201d in 2018 and 2019 under the stage name Rhamell Burke-Missouri, according to the Internet Broadway Database.<\/p>\n

A rep for King Kong on Broadway did not immediately respond to a Post request for comment.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The grinning maniac charged with fatally shoving a 76-year-old retired teacher down Manhattan subway stairs was once a…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":787285,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5122],"tags":[5229,12937,19607,461,5248,27813,405,403,5226,5225,5228,5227,81537,67,586,132,5230,68,1154,2969],"class_list":{"0":"post-787284","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-york","8":"tag-america","9":"tag-assaults","10":"tag-broadway","11":"tag-chelsea","12":"tag-metro","13":"tag-murders","14":"tag-new-york","15":"tag-new-york-city","16":"tag-newyork","17":"tag-newyorkcity","18":"tag-ny","19":"tag-nyc","20":"tag-subway-shoves","21":"tag-united-states","22":"tag-united-states-of-america","23":"tag-unitedstates","24":"tag-unitedstatesofamerica","25":"tag-us","26":"tag-us-news","27":"tag-usa"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/116552227091859813","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/787284","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=787284"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/787284\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/787285"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=787284"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=787284"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=787284"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}