What did Claude White do? Homeless man charged in fatal stabbing of NYC train passenger
Sophia Hammond
Updated on January 25, 2026
33-year-old Claude White was captured on Monday in association with the passing of Tavon Silver. Claude, a vagrant supposedly gone after the casualty on a southward 4 train on Saturday at around 4 am nearby time on June 17, 2023. Silver’s oblivious body was a called the found by a traveler specialists. Authorities likewise found cut injuries on the casualty’s body.
Claude White at present faces a few charges including murder and criminal ownership of a weapon, according to a report by the New York Post. Silver has been depicted as a “dynamic” human, and was a Connecticut local.
A shocking occurrence occurred on June 17, 2023, Saturday in a Brooklyn-bound No. 4 train at around 4 am nearby time. 32-year-old Tavon Silver was fiercely cut by a vagrant named Claude White.
As per policing, the casualty was before long hurried to Bellevue Medical clinic in Kips Sound however was articulated dead. Cops sleeve person for deadly metro cutting in Manhattan. Cops captured a vagrant for purportedly cutting 32-year-old Tavon Silver, who was found draining on board a Brooklyn-bound No. 4 train in Manhattan.
According to the Lewiston Tribune, Amy Walker, a family companion of Silver tended to the claimed cutting by Claude White and said:
“He was so energetic and brimming with life. How is it that somebody could follow through with something like that to him? Did someone comfort him? Did he need to die without anyone else? He console everyone; he didn’t merit this. Pride is coming up this week. I was anticipating seeing him out there.”
After the case became exposed, specialists started researching Claude White’s experience and found his criminal history. It was accounted for that he was recently arrested multiple times and had to deal with a few penalties including terrific theft and burglary attack, tracing all the way back to the extent that 2010.
Last year, Claude White was accused of criminal ownership of a weapon, bothered provocation as a disdain wrongdoing, and two considers of attack a disdain wrongdoing, according to the New York Post.
Subsequent to emerging as gay, the casualty allegedly moved to New York City and was cheerful there. Be that as it may, he before long turned into a casualty of a supposed can’t stand wrongdoing. In 2022, he was gone after on a Wakefield-bound No. 2 train and was wounded with a blade in the arm. The suspect apparently hollered h*mophobic slurs at him during the assault, according to the New York Post.
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Silver was hurried to the clinic and luckily made due. The wrongdoing was labeled as a disdain wrongdoing and was likewise examined by the NYPD Disdain Violations Team. Regardless of the severe assault in 2022, the casualty kept living in New York City and started embracing the lively city life. He recently talked about the 2022 cutting and told Fox5:
“Before I know it, similar to, I had an opening in my arm. Like blood was spouting all over the place. I need to see more gay individuals on the 2 train for me. I won’t change my life along these lines.”
Extra insights concerning Claude White’s case are anticipated as the examination is presently progressing.