A machete-wielding man attacked a Bronx subway passenger early this morning over the weekend, two years after he stabbed another victim in a hate attack on public transportation, authorities said.
Identified as Runadieo Jordan, 54, he was accused of pulling out a machete and slashing a 31-year-old man on a northbound 2 train around 1:15 a.m. Saturday.
The victim in question sustained head and arm injuries in the most recent incident, officials said.
The suspect and the man who was attacked got into an argument after Jordan approached the victim for unexplained reasons as the train entered the Allerton Avenue subway station, the New York Police Department (NYPD) said.
It was at that point that the attacker allegedly pulled out his machete and struck the man several times before escaping and remains a fugitive from justice, officials said.
The victim in question was taken to Jacobi Hospital in stable condition.
This is not the first time Jordan has been charged with a crime on the New York subway. In June 2022, he allegedly stabbed a passenger on another train car in the Bronx, in what officers said was an anti-gay hate crime.
Jordan, who was from Brooklyn at the time, hurled homophobic slurs at the then-victim on the first day of Pride Month, the NYPD reported.
The robbery was almost identical in its execution: The suspect stabbed the victim around 1 a.m. Wednesday, just as the train approached the 3rd Avenue-149th Street station in Melrose, the New York Post reported.
The victim of the 2022 attack had been listening to loud music on the train, the criminal complaint said.
“Turn the music down you fucking moron,” Jordan, then 52, allegedly shouted.
“What did you tell me?” the victim replied.
That’s when Jordan pulled out a knife and slashed the man’s wrist, officers said, severing several arteries and forcing him to undergo two surgeries.
Jordan also fled, but was captured the next day in Manhattan for alleged heroin possession.
Authorities charged him with two counts of assault as a hate crime, criminal possession of a weapon and aggravated harassment as a hate crime.
After his arrest, he was shown a surveillance video in which he appeared.
“Yes, that’s me,” he said, according to the complaint. “I ride the train all the time. What’s going on?”
It is unclear how this case was resolved.
NYPD is asking anyone with information about the incident to call its Crime Stoppers hotline at 1-800-577-TIPS (8477) or, for Spanish, 1-888-57-PISTA (74782).
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