NYC homeless man arrested for murder of subway slashing victim killed while commuting home
A homeless suspect was arrested for the deadly New York City subway slashing of a commuter. Tommy Bailey, a 43-year-old steamfitter with the Local 638 union for over two decades, was fatally sliced in the neck while commuting home aboard the Canarsie-bound L train at around 8:50 p.m. on Friday, stumbling out onto the platform after the subway rolled into Brooklyn’s Atlantic Station. The NYPD said the victim had been involved in a dispute with an unidentified man on the train, and Bailey was rushed by medics to Brookdale University Hospital, where he was pronounced dead. Homeless murder suspect Alvin Charles smirks as he's escorted by detectives from the 73rd Precinct. (WNYW) Several days would pass before an arrest was made on Wednesday. Alvin Charles, a 43-year-old homeless man, was escorted out of the 73rd Precinct Wednesday evening after being charged with the murder of Bailey, a father-of-two whose friends told the N.Y.