Chilling cellphone footage shows the moment a migrant who allegedly shoved two strangers onto subway tracks calmly walks away after the random violence.
Video obtained by The Post shows Honduran national Bairon Hernandez, 34, strolling along the platform after allegedly pushing an 83-year-old man and a second younger man onto the tracks at a station on the Upper East Side around noon Sunday.
A bystander is seen confronting Hernandez before going over to the tracks to try to help the two passengers on the tracks at the Lexington Avenue-63rd Street station.
Hernandez was arrested at about 5 a.m. Tuesday at a Brooklyn homeless shelter and charged with attempted murder, attempted assault, assault and reckless endangerment.
Grandfather and Air Force veteran Richard Williams, the older of the two victims, is still fighting for his life at New York-Presbyterian Hospital Weill Cornell.
“My father, Richard, is on a respirator in the ICU in the hospital. That’s all we are going to say,” one of Williams’ daughters told The Post on Tuesday.
Hernandez reportedly didn’t say a word throughout and hadn’t interacted with his victims before the incident.
The younger victim helped Williams off the tracks and fellow straphangers got the pair back onto the platform before a train came.
Williams was waiting on the downtown platform for the F and Q trains when police say Hernandez suddenly shoved him and the second man onto the tracks.
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He recently celebrated his 55th wedding anniversary and had remained active in his retirement after a career making bulletproof equipment, a family member told the New York Daily News.
It comes after the NYPD revealed transit crime spiked nearly 20% in February as cold weather policies prevented cops from booting rule-breaking passengers from the subway.
More than 190 offenses were reported on the network last month, an 18.5% jump from February 2025, NYPD data show.
“The increase coincided with record cold temperatures and snow in February, when ridership patterns shifted and the department paused ejections from the transit system for violations of the rules during the extreme weather,” the NYPD said in a statement.
