Tavon Silver of the Bronx, New York City, New York, United States has died. He was 32.
Silver had a long rap sheet. He is Eisha Silver‘s son and Trayvon Silver‘s older brother.
Runadieo Jordan
At around 1:00 a.m. on June 1, 2022, Runadieo Jordan, then 52, of Brooklyn, New York City stabbed Tavon in the arm inside a train approaching the 3rd Avenue-149th Street station in Melrose, Bronx. Before the attack, Jordan allegedly spewed homophobic slurs at Tavon, who was with his fiancé.
Tavon was rushed to Lincoln Medical Center in the Bronx in stable condition. On June 3, 2022, Jordan was arrested by New York City Police Department (NYPD) Transit cops on a Bronx-bound No. 6 train at the Brooklyn Bridge station in Manhattan, New York City.
On July 7, 2022, Jordan was arraigned on second-degree aggravated harassment, third-degree criminal possession of a weapon, third-degree assault, fourth-degree criminal possession of a weapon, two counts of first-degree assault, two counts of second-degree assault, two counts of third-degree assault as a hate crime, four counts of first-degree assault as a hate crime and four counts of second-degree assault as a hate crime. His bail was set at $250,000$ cash/ $250,000 bond and $250,000 partially secured bond at 10% by Supreme Court Justice Naita Semaj-Williams.
Jordan was due back in court September 29, 2022. In February 2023, Tavon was arrested and charged with assault and robbery was from an incident on a train at the East 68th Street and Lexington subway station in Manhattan.
Claude White
Claude White, 33, has a lengthy rap sheet including attacks against his fellow homeless men. His most recent address is Bellevue Men’s Shelter in Kips Bay, Manhattan.
In 2011, White pleaded guilty to assault of whacking a man who was begging for money with a thick metal chain to the head. In 2013, he robbed and stabbed a wheelchair-bound homeless man and was sentenced to six years in prison for the attack after pleading guilty.
On June 6, 2023, White allegedly entered a Bank of America in Manhattan, handed a teller a note demanding $120 bills and threatened to shoot if not then stole money from a man who had just withdrawn money and threatened to shoot him. While on parole, he was aboard a southbound 4 train at around 4:00 a.m. on June 17, 2023.
That morning, Tavon was also on that train where White gave him narcotics K2 in exchange for crack cocaine. While inside the train, Tavon smoked the K2 without delivering on his end of the bargain so he and White got into an argument.
White allegedly stabbed Tavon in the heart, casually smoked K2, got off the train at 14th Street/Union Square station in Manhattan, tossed the knife he had just used into the train tunnel and threw away his sweatshirt that was drenched in the Silver’s blood. The victim later died at Bellevue Hospital in Kips Bay.
At around 5:15 p.m. on June 19, 2023, White entered the 125th Street-Lexington Avenue subway station in Harlem, New York City without paying and was arrested by a group of NYPD officers. On June 20,2023, he appeared before Judge Paul McDonnell in criminal court in Manhattan.
McDonnell remanded White without bail. The defendant was arraigned on second-degree murder and criminal possession of a weapon charges for the killing of Silver and for the bank robbery he allegedly committed on June 6, 2023.
CONAN Daily 