Gothamist⁠77%

68-year-old charged with manslaughter in man’s death after NYC subway fight ⁠11%

By Brittany Kriegstein⁠66%

5/14/2026, 5:08:35 AM

BS Summary: This article contains 15 faulty reasoning types, including Availability Heuristic, Negativity Bias, and Framing Effect, with Biased Writer Voice as the most egregious example at 21.6% saturation with 65 hits. Analysis detected 484 faulty-reasoning hits from 301 analyzed words, generating a BS Score of 28.1% and a BS Rank of ⁠11% (19,472 of 21,887 articles). This article is better (less manipulative) than 89.00% of the article peer group.

A Queens man is facing a manslaughter charge after police arrested him for the death of another man he allegedly fought at a Bronx subway station early Wednesday. 
NYPD officials said Keith Plummer, 68, was taken into custody after officers found the victim unconscious at the Van Cortlandt Park–242nd Street station on the 1 line just after 3 a.m. 
First responders took the victim to NewYork-Presbyterian Allen Hospital, where he was pronounced dead. 
Officials did not immediately identify him as they worked to notify his family. 
Police said Plummer and the victim didn’t appear to know each other and got into a fight at the station that led to the man’s death. 
Authorities have not yet detailed the injuries he sustained. 
Plummer was awaiting his arraignment in Bronx Criminal Court early Thursday. 
Information for his lawyer was not immediately available. 
Police said he lives in South Jamaica. 
Homicides in the 50th Precinct, which encompasses northwestern Bronx neighborhoods like Riverdale, Fieldston, Kingsbridge, Marble Hill, and Spuyten Duyvil, have increased significantly so far this year, with four others reported through May 10, according to police data. 
There was one homicide in the precinct in the same timeframe last year, the data shows. 
Citywide, homicides have fallen by more than 26% so far this year, according to the NYPD. 
Major crime in the transit system is about 1% down from its level at this point last year. 
Officials said one of the other killings in the precinct this year happened just steps from the same subway station. 
In January, 44-year-old Keon Gill was fatally shot on the street nearby. 
Police later arrested three people on murder charges for the shooting. 
This story is based on preliminary information from police and may be updated. 
Article reasoning-pattern comparisonThis article: 8.6%Brittany Kriegstein: 3.5%Gothamist: 2.7%Confirmation Bias8.6%This article: 5.3%Brittany Kriegstein: 2.3%Gothamist: 1.5%Anchoring Bias5.3%This article: 18.9%Brittany Kriegstein: 4.4%Gothamist: 3.6%Availability Heuristic18.9%This article: 0.0%Brittany Kriegstein: 1.1%Gothamist: 1.1%Representativeness Heuristic0.0%This article: 0.0%Brittany Kriegstein: 1.1%Gothamist: 0.7%Hindsight Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%Brittany Kriegstein: 0.7%Gothamist: 1.2%Overconfidence Bias0.0%This article: 14.6%Brittany Kriegstein: 8.9%Gothamist: 8.4%Framing Effect14.6%This article: 0.0%Brittany Kriegstein: 0.8%Gothamist: 1.2%Loss Aversion0.0%This article: 6.0%Brittany Kriegstein: 0.8%Gothamist: 1.1%Status Quo Bias6.0%This article: 0.0%Brittany Kriegstein: 0.3%Gothamist: 0.2%Sunk Cost Effect0.0%This article: 5.3%Brittany Kriegstein: 3.2%Gothamist: 3.6%Optimism Bias5.3%This article: 0.0%Brittany Kriegstein: 0.7%Gothamist: 1.7%Pessimism Bias0.0%This article: 18.9%Brittany Kriegstein: 9.1%Gothamist: 8.5%Negativity Bias18.9%This article: 0.0%Brittany Kriegstein: 1.0%Gothamist: 2.6%Self-Serving Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%Brittany Kriegstein: 0.8%Gothamist: 1.0%Fundamental Attribution Error0.0%This article: 0.0%Brittany Kriegstein: 0.6%Gothamist: 0.3%Actor-Observer Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%Brittany Kriegstein: 1.6%Gothamist: 2.1%In-Group Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%Brittany Kriegstein: 0.4%Gothamist: 0.6%Out-Group Homogeneity Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%Brittany Kriegstein: 2.8%Gothamist: 2.1%Halo Effect0.0%This article: 0.0%Brittany Kriegstein: 0.1%Gothamist: 0.2%Horn Effect0.0%This article: 0.0%Brittany Kriegstein: 0.0%Gothamist: 0.0%Dunning-Kruger Effect0.0%This article: 4.0%Brittany Kriegstein: 1.6%Gothamist: 1.3%Recency Bias4.0%This article: 0.0%Brittany Kriegstein: 0.3%Gothamist: 0.4%Primacy Effect0.0%This article: 0.0%Brittany Kriegstein: 0.1%Gothamist: 0.1%Blind-Spot Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%Brittany Kriegstein: 0.2%Gothamist: 1.0%Ad Hominem0.0%This article: 0.0%Brittany Kriegstein: 0.1%Gothamist: 0.2%Straw Man0.0%This article: 3.7%Brittany Kriegstein: 5.0%Gothamist: 4.4%Appeal to Authority3.7%This article: 0.0%Brittany Kriegstein: 0.6%Gothamist: 1.2%False Dilemma0.0%This article: 0.0%Brittany Kriegstein: 0.0%Gothamist: 0.8%Slippery Slope0.0%This article: 0.0%Brittany Kriegstein: 0.0%Gothamist: 0.1%Circular Reasoning0.0%This article: 12.3%Brittany Kriegstein: 4.1%Gothamist: 3.8%Hasty Generalization12.3%This article: 0.0%Brittany Kriegstein: 0.4%Gothamist: 0.3%Red Herring0.0%This article: 0.0%Brittany Kriegstein: 0.4%Gothamist: 0.8%Bandwagon0.0%This article: 0.0%Brittany Kriegstein: 6.4%Gothamist: 6.4%Appeal to Emotion0.0%This article: 0.0%Brittany Kriegstein: 0.2%Gothamist: 0.7%Begging the Question0.0%This article: 8.6%Brittany Kriegstein: 1.8%Gothamist: 2.4%Post Hoc (False Cause)8.6%This article: 0.0%Brittany Kriegstein: 0.0%Gothamist: 0.1%Tu Quoque0.0%This article: 9.3%Brittany Kriegstein: 0.4%Gothamist: 0.4%Burden of Proof9.3%This article: 0.0%Brittany Kriegstein: 0.0%Gothamist: 0.1%Appeal to Nature0.0%This article: 0.0%Brittany Kriegstein: 0.2%Gothamist: 0.2%Composition/Division0.0%This article: 10.6%Brittany Kriegstein: 3.2%Gothamist: 2.8%Anecdotal10.6%This article: 0.0%Brittany Kriegstein: 0.1%Gothamist: 0.1%No True Scotsman0.0%This article: 0.0%Brittany Kriegstein: 1.6%Gothamist: 1.3%Ambiguity (Equivocation)0.0%This article: 0.0%Brittany Kriegstein: 0.0%Gothamist: 0.0%Gambler’s Fallacy0.0%This article: 0.0%Brittany Kriegstein: 0.1%Gothamist: 0.1%Middle Ground0.0%This article: 0.0%Brittany Kriegstein: 0.3%Gothamist: 0.1%Personal Incredulity0.0%This article: 0.0%Brittany Kriegstein: 0.0%Gothamist: 0.2%Special Pleading0.0%This article: 0.0%Brittany Kriegstein: 0.0%Gothamist: 0.2%Genetic Fallacy0.0%This article: 13.0%Brittany Kriegstein: 1.5%Gothamist: 1.2%Unattributed Quote13.0%This article: 0.0%Brittany Kriegstein: 0.9%Gothamist: 1.0%Quote-first Misdirection0.0%This article: 21.6%Brittany Kriegstein: 5.8%Gothamist: 3.2%Biased Writer Voice21.6%This article: 0.0%Brittany Kriegstein: 1.5%Gothamist: 1.5%Indoctrination0.0%This article: 0.0%Brittany Kriegstein: 0.4%Gothamist: 1.0%Politically Left Leaning Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%Brittany Kriegstein: 0.1%Gothamist: 0.2%Politically Right Leaning Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%Brittany Kriegstein: 1.0%Gothamist: 1.0%Attempt to Sell a Product or S…0.0%

301 words analyzed.

Speakers

4speakers49%attributed speech153writer words
Voice mapSelect a segment to jump to its words
Writer's voice • 11 words • 0.0% coverageWriter's voice • 28 words • 100.0% coverageNYPD officials • 31 words • 0.0% coverageWriter's voice • 14 words • 0.0% coverageWriter's voice • 13 words • 0.0% coveragePolice • 26 words • 100.0% coverageWriter's voice • 9 words • 0.0% coverageWriter's voice • 11 words • 0.0% coverageWriter's voice • 8 words • 0.0% coveragePolice • 7 words • 0.0% coveragePolice • 37 words • 100.0% coverageWriter's voice • 16 words • 0.0% coverageNYPD • 16 words • 0.0% coverageWriter's voice • 18 words • 0.0% coverageOfficials • 20 words • 0.0% coverageWriter's voice • 12 words • 0.0% coveragePolice • 11 words • 0.0% coverageWriter's voice • 13 words • 100.0% coverage
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Officials

100%flagged-word coverage
20 attributed words14% of attributed speech57% writer coverage
0%10.0%20.0%Biased Writer Voice-18.3 ptsWriter: 18.3%Officials: 0.0%0.0%Unattributed Quote-8.5 ptsWriter: 8.5%Officials: 0.0%0.0%

Attribution is sentence-level. Pattern percentages are calculated only from words assigned to that voice.

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Analysis

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