‘The Only Crime Here Is That He Didn’t Get All of Them’: 69-Year-Old Homeless Man Who Fights Off 5 Attackers, Killing One, Faces No Charges

Outnumbered 5-to-1 by men mostly half his age, a 69-year-old homeless man took justice into his own hands on a New York City subway train, stabbing two of his attackers, killing one. The unidentified victim was sleeping on a Queens subway train just after midnight on Dec. 22, 2024, when two men — identified by prosecutors as Stalin Moya and Oswaldo Walter — grabbed one of his bags and took it into an adjoining car. Moya then goes back for more, subway surveillance cameras show, waking up the 69-year-old man in the process. The unidentified victim followed Moya into the second car to try to get his things back, only to be attacked by several men in the group. Others scattered to hide his bags they had stolen. They continue bullying him, shoving and punching the seemingly defenseless victim. The tables quickly turned when the homeless man pulls out a long knife and begins slashing his attackers, wounding at least two. The men begin running; one of the attackers, bleeding noticeably, trails behind them, leaving the victim standing alone in the middle of an otherwise empty subway car, knife in hand. Moya died from multiple stabbings, said Queens prosecutors. Pena,...