The Brooklyn straphanger who shot a berserk man attacking him on a rush-hour train will not be charged, prosecutors said Friday — as new video surfaced of the gunman’s bust on the stairs of the station.
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“Yesterday’s shooting inside a crowded subway car was shocking and deeply upsetting,’’ said Oren Yaniv, a spokesman for the Brooklyn District Attorney’s Office, in an e-mailed statement.
The investigation into this tragic incident is ongoing but, at this stage, evidence of self-defense precludes us from filing any criminal charges against the shooter.”
Thursday’s shooter, identified by law-enforcement sources and a relative as 32-year-old dad-of-two Younece Obuad, was freed after questioning by authorities Friday.
Newly surfaced footage showed him splayed out face-down on stairs in the station with a cop standing over him as pandemonium reigned around them.
The video also captured the shot man who had been tormenting him, Dajuan Robinson, 36, lying bleeding on the floor of the subway car as another guy repeatedly yells, “Oh, my God!”
The lawyer for Daniel Penny — a former Marine being prosecuted in the Manhattan subway chokehold death of disturbed rider Jordan Neely — told The Post that Friday’s decision to free Obuad is appropriate.
“I applaud the Brooklyn district attorney for exercising the prosecutorial discretion to realize that somebody who was forced to defend himself and others shouldn’t be subjected to a criminal indictment — I think that’s how it should play out,’’ said Penny’s lawyer, Thomas Kenniff.
“This is the same environment that confronted my client last year,’’ the lawyer claimed, referring to Penny’s infamous fatal caught-on-video takedown of Neely, which the ex-military man said was in defense of other passengers he was threatening.
Thursday’s shooter, identified by law-enforcement sources and a relative as Younece Obuad, was freed after questioning by authorities.
[Source: New York Post]
