{"id":106688,"date":"2025-01-11T12:44:45","date_gmt":"2025-01-11T18:44:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/?p=106688"},"modified":"2025-01-11T13:10:43","modified_gmt":"2025-01-11T19:10:43","slug":"106688","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/?p=106688","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"

Homeless man, 69, won\u2019t face charges after stabbing thugs who terrorized him on subway, killing 1: DA<\/a><\/p>\n

Dramatic video footage<\/a> captured the moment a 69-year-old homeless man stabbed the thugs who mercilessly terrorized him on a Queens subway train, killing one and wounding another.<\/p>\n

In a twist of transit justice, it\u2019s the surviving goons who are now behind bars, prosecutors said.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe victim was accosted, without provocation, and our investigation has shown that he defended himself while attempting to retrieve his property,\u201d Queens\u00a0District Attorney Melinda Katz<\/a>\u00a0said in a statement Wednesday.<\/p>\n

“As a result, my office will not be filing charges for the fatality.\u201d<\/figure>\n

Gripping footage of the violent encounter on a 7 train on Dec. 22 shows the victim sleeping on the train shortly before 12:30 a.m. when two of the brutes \u2014 identified by prosecutors as Stalin Moya and Oswaldo Walter \u2014 grab one of the man\u2019s bags and take it into a second car.<\/p>\n

Moya then goes back and grabs more of the victim\u2019s bags \u2014 waking him up in the process.\u00a0That\u2019s when things got violent.<\/p>\n

The unidentified victim followed Moya into the second car to try to get his things back, only to be attacked and pounded by several men in the group as they scattered and hid his bags.<\/p>\n

The footage shows the victim then being shoved and slugged repeatedly by the group \u2014 until he has enough and pulls out a long knife and slashes his attackers, wounding at least two.<\/p>\n

The cowardly thugs then scatter \u2014 one is seen stumbling away, bleeding from his wounds \u2014 as the victim stands in the middle of the empty subway car, still clutching the knife.<\/p>\n

Queens prosecutors said Moya was killed and defendant Phillipe Pena was wounded.<\/p>\n

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Pena, 26, Walter, 29, and two others \u2014 Jose Valencia, 35, and Henry Toapanta, 32 \u2014 have been indicted by a grand jury on robbery and assault charges in the incident. The DA\u2019s office said all of the suspects are also homeless.<\/div>\n<\/figure>\n

\u201cOur subways must be safe for the millions of people who depend on public transportation,\u201d Katz said in her statement. \u201cThe New York City subway system has been outfitted with cameras and the video recovered in this case is vital to our prosecution.\u201d<\/p>\n

The incident comes\u00a0amid a recent jump in subway violence<\/a>\u00a0and has similarities to earlier instances when straphangers fought back against transit thugs.<\/p>\n

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Most notable is the case of Daniel Penny, a Marine who was acquitted<\/a>\u00a0in the chokehold death of vagrant Jordan Neely on a Manhattan F train in 2023.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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