Surveillance video shows deadly stabbing attack in Bronx subway station, cops said.
A youth basketball coach on his way home from his Citifield maintenance job died in an unprovoked knife attack at a Bronx subway station, police said Friday.
Video shows Charles Moore, 36, grappling with the suspect as they emerged from a northbound No. 4 train at the elevated station at E. 176th St. and Jerome Ave. in Morris Heights at about 10:30 p.m. Thursday.
As the men came off he train, Moore slammed the suspect into a wall on the subway platform, surveillance video shows.
Charles Moore,38, was stabbed to death in a random attack on the subway. (Family Handout)
The two men wrestled each other to the ground, at which point the attacker knifed Moore in the lower back, the video shows.
“He pulled a knife, and Chuck never had a chance,” said Frances Vanterpool Moore, the victim’s mother.
Moore — who was 6-foot-1 and weighed around 240 pounds — let go of his attacker, who ran off.
“He stabbed up my baby all up in the back and the chest,” said Vanterpool Moore, 74, as she broke down in tears. “My son has never had a criminal record. He’s a hard worker, a quiet man, on his way home from work.”
“I screamed and I fell out when I saw the video,” she said. “I screamed, ‘My son! My son!’”
Surveillance video shows deadly stabbing attack in Bronx subway station, cops said. (NYPD)
Medics rushed Moore to St. Barnabas Hospital, where he later died.
Vanterpool Moore said her son was a maintenance worker at Citfield’s luxury boxes, and had a second job in security. “Charles always worked two jobs his whole adult life,” she said.
When he wasn’t working, Moore coached a youth basketball team in the city’s Police Athletic League and doted on his 8-year-old daughter, Charly.
“Children loved him,” said the devastated mom. “We just told his daughter. It was difficult. We really didn’t know how to tell her.”
Charles Moore, 38, was stabbed to death in a random attack on the subway. (Family Handout)
Vanterpool Moore, a mother of five, said the family was still mourning the loss of Moore’s sister last year from an allergic reaction.
The attacker, who police said was later seen on video putting his large knife in his black backpack, ran out of the station and is being sought.
“We’re asking the public to give him up,” Moore’s cousin Muhammad Shabazz, 60 said of his killer. “Anyone who knows this person please come forward. We want justice.”
“He was loved by his family, his friends and the whole neighborhood,” Shabazz said of Moore.
Police secured the entrance to the uptown No. 4 train at the E. 176th St. in the Bronx station after Charles Moore was stabbed Thursday. (Sam Costanza/for New York Daily News)
On Friday evening scores of mourners gathered outside Moore’s Belmont apartment building to light candles below portraits of him. His nickname, ‘Chuck,’ was spelled out in lit candles.
The suspect is Black, about 5-foot-11, weighs around 160 pounds, and was last seen dressed in black. Anyone with information is asked to call CrimeStoppers at 1-800-577-TIPS.
Subway crime is up 42% this year, with felony assaults up 17%, to 410 from 351 during the same period of 2021
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