Gunpoint Robbery in UWS Subway; DA Indicts Two Men for Harlem Murder

A 57-year-old woman was mugged at gunpoint on the morning of Oct. 15 inside the 86th Street subway station on the B/C lines, at around 11:15 a.m. The victim was about to enter a turnstile when an unidentified man grabbed her from behind, put a firearm to her head, and demanded she hand over her two purses.

Inside the purses were the victim’s Apple watch, iPhone, wallet, credit cards, other documents, and $120 cash.

West 86th Street is the border between two NYPD precincts: 20th to the south, 24th to the north, while the subway station is part of Transit District 1.

Images of the suspect show a dark-skinned man of indeterminate ethnicity, approximately 5-foot-9, in a gray baseball cap, dark coat, blue jeans, and gray New Balance sneakers.

Above ground, the man fled on a maroon multispeed pedal bicycle with caliper brakes.

Two Men Indicted for July Murder in Harlem

Manhattan D.A. Alvin L. Bragg Jr. recently announced the indictments of Barshon Jamiso, 34, and James Lattimore, 33, for allegedly killing 32-year-old Hamid Thomas and wounding an innocent bystander during a Harlem shooting on July 14.

Jamison and Lattimore are each charged in a New York State Supreme Court indictment with Murder in the Second Degree, Criminal Possession of a Weapon in the Second Degree, Assault in the Second Degree, and Assault in the Third Degree.

As alleged in court documents and statements made on the record, the defendants had known the victim for several years. On the morning of July 14, the defendants allegedly assaulted Thomas. Following this altercation, Jamison and Lattimore went to Jamison’s apartment building in NYCHA’s Drew-Hamilton Houses, near West 143rd Street and Eighth Avenue, where Jamison changed his clothing and put on a ski mask.

Around three hours later, at approximately 2:40 p.m., Jamison stood by a church at the end of a courtyard located in the Drew-Hamilton Houses, near West 142nd Street and Seventh Avenue, waiting for Thomas, who was riding a scooter in the vicinity.

While waiting, Jamison contacted Lattimore, who entered the courtyard. As Thomas entered the courtyard and passed Lattimore, Jamison allegedly ran into the courtyard, pulled out a gun, and fired several shots at Thomas, striking him numerous times in the midsection and arm, while one bullet grazed a female bystander on her side as she attempted to flee. Thomas and the woman were both eventually transported to the hospital, where Thomas was pronounced dead.

The defendants allegedly fled the scene, heading eastbound on West 143rd Street. Jamison was arrested in Rochester, N.Y., on Aug. 27. Lattimore was arrested on Oct. 2.

While Bragg describes Thomas simply as “a lifelong New Yorker,” his story is more complicated, and miserable, than that. As detailed in the Daily News, Thomas was raised in foster homes, and later prison, where he served eight years for a 2013 shooting. Thomas was paroled in 2020, and his parole ended in 2023.

Said Thomas’s foster mom, Adrienne Carroll, “He just lived to be in the street.”