Machete-wielding suspect, arrested in 2022 transit hate crime, attacks man on Bronx subway: police
A machete-wielding suspect launched an early morning assault on another straphanger on a Bronx subway over the weekend – around two years after he allegedly stabbed another victim in a transit hate attack, cops said.
Runadieo Jordan, 54, is accused of pulling the sharp weapon and slashing the 31-year-old man on a northbound 2 train at around 1:15 a.m. Saturday.
The victim was left with wounds to the head and arm in the most recent attack, authorities said.
The suspect and victim had just gotten into an argument after Jordan approached the man for reasons that remain unclear as the train pulled into the Allerton Avenue subway station, police said.
That’s when Jordan struck, allegedly taking out the big blade and lashing out at his victim several times before he took off and is still on the lam, authorities said.
The victim was taken to Jacobi Hospital in stable condition.
It’s not the first time Jordan has been accused of a heinous subway crime. In June 2022, he allegedly stabbed a man in another Bronx train car in what cops said was an anti-gay hate crime.
Jordan, then of Brooklyn, spewed homophobic slurs at his victim on the first day of Pride Month, cops said.
The assault was almost identical in execution, with Jordan allegedly knifing the victim at about 1 a.m. on a Wednesday, just as the train approached the 3rd Avenue-149th Street station in Melrose.
The victim in the 2022 assault had been playing loud music on the train, according to a criminal complaint at the time.
“Turn your music down, you f–king f—-t,” Jordan, then 52, allegedly yelled.
“What did you say to me?” the victim responded.
That’s when Jordan pulled a blade and sliced the man’s wrist, authorities said, cutting several arteries and forcing him to undergo two surgeries.
Jordan fled after that assault, too. But he was picked up a day later in Manhattan on suspected heroin possession.
Authorities charged him two counts of assault as a hate crime, criminal possession of a weapon and aggravated harassment as a hate crime.
After his arrest, Jordan was shown surveillance video of himself.
“Yeah, that’s me,” he said, according to the complaint. “I ride the trains all the time. What of it?”
It’s not clear how that case was resolved. The Bronx District Attorney’s office did not respond to a Sunday request for comment.
The 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).
