BROOKLYN, N.Y. (PIX11) --- The man who shot a subway rider in the head during an argument on a Brooklyn train Thursday afternoon won't be charged, prosecutors said Friday.
Younece Obuad, 32, allegedly shot Dajuan Robinson, 36, after the victim picked a fight with him on a northbound A train as it pulled into the Hoyt-Schermerhorn Streets subway station around 4:45 p.m., according to the NYPD and law enforcement sources.
“Yesterday’s shooting inside a crowded subway car was shocking and deeply upsetting. 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," according to a spokesperson for the Brooklyn District Attorney's Office.
Authorities said Robinson started the argument and pulled a gun on Obuad, who disarmed him and shot him in the head. Before the shooting, a woman stabbed Robinson in the lower back while he was repeatedly punching Obuad, according to police and a video from the scene. Police said the woman was with Obuad.
"You stabbed me," Robinson said to the woman in the footage.
"I didn't do nothing," the woman replied.
The arguing escalated before several shots were fired as screaming subway riders scrambled to safety, the video shows.
"Let me out," a passenger said during the gunfire.
"Get down, get down," a rider said.
Robinson, an ex-con, is in critical but stable condition at the hospital, police said Friday afternoon.
The victim, dressed in a black jacket and red and white hat in a video released by the NYPD, may have suffered from mental illness because he referred to himself as a cop, according to the NYPD.
“It seems like the man was making inferences like he was a police officer as he was speaking to the person he was having a dispute with,” NYPD Chief of Department Jeffrey Maddrey said Friday. “It’s very alarming. We know we have people in the subway that suffer from mental illness."
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Mira Wassef is a digital reporter who has covered news and sports in the New York City area for more than a decade. She joined PIX11 News in 2022. See more of her work here.
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