An assailant who shot himself in the head with his own gun on a rush-hour train in Brooklyn last week will face criminal charges if he survives, police announced Thursday.
NYPD Chief of Detectives Joseph Kenney told reporters that Dajuan Robinson, 36, remains in critical but stable condition at NewYork-Presbyterian Brooklyn Methodist Hospital and is breathing through a tube. Told.
If things go ahead, Mr. Kenny said, Mr. Robinson would be charged by police with weapons possession.
During the frightening incident on the A train on March 14, Mr Robinson was robbed of his handgun by 32-year-old father-of-two Younes Obouad, who shot him twice in the head and once in the chest. He was shot four times, once in the abdomen. According to police and video.
Police continue to search for the woman who was with Obuad and stabbed Robinson in the back during the disturbance, but on Thursday police announced they only knew her by her nickname, “Unique.”
Once police identify her, the Brooklyn District Attorney’s Office will decide whether to charge her. A DA spokeswoman previously said Obuad would not be charged because she appeared to have acted in self-defense.
The fight broke out after Mr Robinson accused Mr Obouad and the woman he was with of being immigrants.
“He thinks we’re immigrants,” the woman told Obouad shortly before the two got into an argument, police said.
As the two grappled, she pulled a sharp object from her bag and stabbed Robinson twice in the back, Kenny said.
“Are you going to stab me?” Robinson said after the stabbing, blood staining his shirt, according to witness video.
“Oh, you stabbed me? I’ll lock you up when you get down!” an enraged Robinson shouts at them.
“You stabbed me, didn’t you? Did you stab me? Did you stab me?” Robinson continued to scream as he pulled a gun from his jacket and charged at them.
A deranged passenger who was captured on surveillance footage entering the subway through an emergency exit door pulled out a pistol during a struggle with Obuad, and the terrified straphanger ducked for cover during the evening rush hour. I let it happen.
Police said Obouad then snatched the gun from his hand and fired at Robinson as the train entered the Hoyt-Schermerhorn station.
“While the investigation into this tragic incident is ongoing, at this stage we are unable to file criminal charges against the shooter due to evidence of self-defense,” Brooklyn Police Department spokesman Oren Yaniv said in a final email. issued a statement via email. week.
