Before Neely’s death, from March 2020 until early April, 27 people lost their lives to murder in the subway, many of them, like Neely, were homeless young people.
Bew Jirajariyawetch, 23, was grabbed from behind in a chokehold, thrown to the ground, and robbed while she waited for the subway at 34th Street Herald Square station on November 22.
Serial offender Darrell Johnson, 28, has been charged with two misdemeanor counts of assault and was freed without bail for allegedly attacking two women in Manhattan.
The 32-year-old victim was killed in what police said appeared to be an apparently random overnight attack last month as the train pulled into Penn Station.