{"id":795957,"date":"2026-05-14T14:05:10","date_gmt":"2026-05-14T14:05:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/795957\/"},"modified":"2026-05-14T14:05:10","modified_gmt":"2026-05-14T14:05:10","slug":"man-killed-in-fight-on-bronx-subway-with-man-he-awoke-by-hitting-with-cane","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/795957\/","title":{"rendered":"Man killed in fight on Bronx subway with man he awoke by hitting with cane"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A 48-year man was killed in a fight on a Bronx subway train with a man he awoke by hitting with a cane, <a href=\"https:\/\/compstat.nypdonline.org\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">police<\/a> sources said Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>The clash began when the victim, who police believe may have been homeless, struck or prodded the suspect, who was asleep on a No. 1 train inside the 242nd St-Van Cortland Park station about 3:05 a.m. Wednesday, cops said. The station is the northern terminus for the line.<\/p>\n<p>The 68-year-old suspect awoke and got into an argument with the victim that turned physical. As they grappled, the victim apparently went into cardiac arrest, the source said.<\/p>\n<p>The fight ended with the suspect pinning the victim to the floor, police sources told amNewYork.<\/p>\n<p>A transit worker came upon the scene, with the victim lying on the floor unconscious, and authorities were alerted.<\/p>\n<p>Medics rushed the victim to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nyp.org\/allenhospital?utm_source=yextgmb&amp;utm_medium=organic&amp;utm_campaign=yext_doctor_listings&amp;y_source=1_MTM4MTIwMjQtNzE1LWxvY2F0aW9uLndlYnNpdGU%3D\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">New York-Presbyterian Allen Hospital<\/a> but he could not be saved. His name was not immediately released.<\/p>\n<p>Keith Plummer was arrested at the scene for manslaughter. He lives in South Jamaica, Queens, according to cops, and has about three dozen prior arrests.<\/p>\n<p>Plummer\u2019s arraignment in Bronx Criminal Court was pending Thursday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A 48-year man was killed in a fight on a Bronx subway train with a man he awoke&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":795958,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5122],"tags":[5229,8471,2451,3059,5295,1370,728,405,403,5294,50,5226,5225,5228,5227,5293,5321,67,586,132,5230,68,2969],"class_list":{"0":"post-795957","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-york","8":"tag-america","9":"tag-bronx","10":"tag-city","11":"tag-county","12":"tag-crime-and-public-safety","13":"tag-latest-headlines","14":"tag-local-news","15":"tag-new-york","16":"tag-new-york-city","17":"tag-new-york-county","18":"tag-news","19":"tag-newyork","20":"tag-newyorkcity","21":"tag-ny","22":"tag-nyc","23":"tag-nyc-crime","24":"tag-sub-county-region","25":"tag-united-states","26":"tag-united-states-of-america","27":"tag-unitedstates","28":"tag-unitedstatesofamerica","29":"tag-us","30":"tag-usa"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/116573315407967960","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/795957","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=795957"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/795957\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/795958"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=795957"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=795957"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=795957"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}