Newly surfaced video shows the gun-toting straphanger who launched a violent subway confrontation during rush-hour in Brooklyn illegally sauntering through an emergency gate to dodge the fare, NYPD officials said Friday — as they defending the policing of quality-of-life issues.
Rider Dajuan Robinson, 36, was shot in the head with his own gun after suddenly going berserk on another straphanger on an A train as it pulled into the Hoyt-Schermerhorn Street station Thursday night.
The shooter, who had been threatened and harassed, is in policy custody.
The shooter, who had been threatened and harassed, is in policy custody.Straphangers hoped the situation wouldn’t escalate, according to a journalist on the scene. @JoyceMeetsWorld/X-ABCIt is unclear who if anyone will face charges and what they might be.
NYPD Chief of Department Jeffrey Madrey told reporters that 13.3% of riders skipped the fare on the subway system in the first quarter of the year.
“If you want to keep the system safe, the first thing you have to do is keep bad people out of the system who don’t pay. This is a perfect example to talk about it,’’ Deputy Inspector Tarik Sheppard said.
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Straphangers huddled in fear after chaos broke out. @JoyceMeetsWorld/XViolence on a rush-hour northbound A train erupted on Thursday. William C Lopez/New York PostA man was shot in the head on a Brooklyn subway platform, according to police sources. Peter GerberThe shooting took place during the afternoon rush hour. Peter GerberThe shooter was arrested before he even stepped onto the platform.No guardsmen were at the Brooklyn station when the rush-hour shooting broke out.“I thought they were bringing in the National Guard and extra to stop these kinds of things from happening. If they can’t stop it, who can?” a frustrated Zara Jones, 24, asked after the mayhem.Another witness, Janelle, saw the man who was shot being rushed out of the station on a gurney.“He had so many tubes attached to him that I could barely see his face. He was bleeding pretty heavily,” she told The Post.
