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   From: hypocrisy@nytimes.com   
      
   The homeless man accused of brutally stabbing a straphanger to death on a   
   Manhattan subway train Saturday morning “casually and callously” smoked K2   
   after allegedly plunging a knife into the man’s heart, prosecutors said.   
      
   Claude White, 33, was arraigned on second-degree murder and criminal   
   possession of a weapon charges in Manhattan criminal court Tuesday for the   
   killing of 32-year-old Tavon Silver.   
      
   White allegedly got into an argument with Silver over a drug deal gone   
   wrong aboard a southbound 4 train at around 4 a.m., Assistant District   
   Attorney Victoria Meyer said at his arraignment hearing.   
      
   He reportedly gave Silver K2 in exchange for crack cocaine, but Silver   
   smoked it without delivering on his end of the bargain, according to the   
   prosecutor.   
      
   White grew enraged and the pair argued to the point it turned violent.   
      
   White allegedly straddled Silver with his knees on his shoulders — totally   
   immobilizing him, Meyer said.   
      
   “The defendant had every opportunity in the world to choose not to kill   
   this man but in the defendant’s own words to the detectives, he felt that   
   there must be ‘consequences,'” Meyer told the court.   
      
   “So the defendant reached for a knife and he plunged it into Mr. Silver’s   
   body while his 300-plus-pound body sat on top of Mr. Silver,” she added.   
   “He stabbed Mr. Silver twice in the chest, exposing his stomach and then   
   ultimately puncturing his heart.”   
      
   After the bloodbath, White allegedly rummaged through his victim’s   
   belongings and took back the K2 he had given him.   
      
   He then got off the train at 14th Street/Union Square, tossed the knife he   
   had just used into the train tunnel and threw away his sweatshirt that was   
   drenched in the victim’s blood, according to Meyer.   
      
   Once on the subway platform, White “casually and callously” walked over to   
   a person waiting for a train and asked for a light to smoke the K2 while   
   Silver lay dying, the prosecutor said.   
      
   Silver, who survived a separate hate-fueled stabbing last year in the   
   Bronx, cried out to a conductor that he had been stabbed before passing   
   out.   
      
   He was rushed to Bellevue Hospital, where he was pronounced dead.   
      
   Judge Paul McDonnell remanded White without bail, stating that he “poses   
   an extreme flight risk.”   
      
   White — whose address is listed as the “Bellevue men’s center” — was also   
   arraigned for a bank robbery he allegedly committed at a Manhattan Bank of   
   America on June 6 after he failed to show up for his original court date.   
      
   He is accused of handing a teller a note demanding one-hundred and twenty   
   dollar bills and threatening to shoot if not. White then allegedly stole   
   money from a man who had just withdrawn money while threatening to shoot   
   him.   
      
   White identified himself as the suspect in surveillance footage from the   
   bank heist and “completely confessed” to the crime but said he lied about   
   being armed, the prosecutor said.   
      
   The alleged murderer has a lengthy and violent rap sheet including attacks   
   against other homeless men.   
      
   In 2011, he pled guilty to assault of whacking a man who was begging for   
   money with a thick metal chain to the head.   
      
   Two years later, he robbed and stabbed a wheelchair-bound homeless man in   
   a particularly heinous attack. White slashed the victim in the hand so   
   deep that muscle was protruding from his wound, Meyer said.   
      
   White pleaded guilty and was sentenced to six years in prison for that   
   attack.   
      
   The suspect’s parole officer testified at the hearing and said he was “not   
   suitable for community supervision” due to his history of skipping rehab   
   programs and called him a flight risk.   
      
   White could face up to 25 years to life in prison if he’s convicted of the   
   murder charge.   
      
   https://nypost.com/2023/06/21/claude-white-smoked-k2-after-killing-tavon-   
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