Another miscreant was harassing people on a NYC train, which included punching a woman in the face.

Her boyfriend engaged the man and during the fight pulled out a knife and stabbed him twice.

Here’s more via the New York Post:

The straphanger stabbed to death on a Brooklyn train was an ex-con who’d been harassing a couple on board – and punched the woman before her boyfriend knifed him in the chest, police sources said Wednesday.

Devictor Ouedraogo, 36, was hassling other commuters on board a northbound J train approaching Marcy Avenue in Williamsburg Tuesday evening when he started arguing with Jordan Williams, 20, and his gal pal, the sources said.

During the clash, Ouedraogo, of Bedford-Stuyvesant, socked the woman in the face, the sources said.

Ouedraogo and Williams tussled on the train and had each other in headlocks at one point before the younger man allegedly pulled a knife and stabbed the other twice, sources said.

The wounded man stumbled out of the train and onto the platform, the sources said.

Officers responded to a 911 call about the stabbing just after 8 p.m., cops said.

EMS also responded and rushed Ouedraogo to Brooklyn Methodist Hospital, where he was pronounced dead.

The couple stayed on the train, but were tracked down by police at the Chauncey Street station, the sources said.

Williams, of Hollis, Queens, was charged late Wednesday morning with manslaughter and criminal possession of a weapon, authorities said.

The woman, whose age was not released, was initially also in custody as a “person of interest,” but was later released, cops said.

Police have said the couple did not know Ouedraogo prior to the fatal clash. Cops are reviewing cell phone footage from the deadly scuffle.

Ouedraogo did time in state prison in August 2009 for an attempted robbery in Queens, records show.

So they’ve already charged him with manslaughter even before they’ve finished reviewing cellphone video?

While we can’t see what happened yet, it sounds to me like a justified case of ‘self-defense’. He was defending his girlfriend and then himself from this violent thug on the train. Whether it’s a handgun or a knife, what difference does it make if the man is defending himself and his girlfriend? It shouldn’t make any.

 
UPDATE: Here’s the GiveSendGo for his legal defense: