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Claude White charged with murder in deadly subway stabbing in Manhattan

NEW YORK -- Police have arrested a man accused in a deadly stabbing on the subway in Manhattan.

Police say 33-year-old Claude White was taken into custody Monday.

He's accused of fatally stabbing 32-year-old Tavon Silver early Saturday morning.

A passenger found Silver unconscious with stab wounds on a southbound 4 train as it approached the 14th Street-Union Square station. He was taken to a local hospital, where he was pronounced dead.

Police say White has been charged with murder and criminal possession of a weapon.

He was also wanted in connection to a bank robbery in Midtown on June 6.

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