Prosecutors are considering criminal charges against subway buff Dajuan Robinson, but are waiting to see if he survives being shot four times with his own gun, sources told The Post on Saturday. Ta.
Robinson pulled out a handgun during an argument with Younes Obouad, a father of two, and an unknown woman on an A train in Brooklyn during rush hour Thursday evening, causing a panic among the hangers-on.
On Saturday, prosecutors decided not to charge Obuad, 32, with fatally shooting Robinson, 36, who remained in critical condition at NewYork-Presbyterian Weill Cornell Medical Center, officials said. announced.
Joseph Giacalone, a former NYPD sergeant and adjunct professor at the John Jay College of Criminal Justice, said Robinson, 36, could be charged with firearm possession, fare evasion, menacing and reckless endangerment. said.
“I think they’re figuring out if he’s going to survive and what condition he’s going to be in,” he said.
“This shows that we can prevent this type of behavior by enforcing one simple rule. All subway crime starts with fare evasion.”
The NYPD issued about 120,000 civil citations for misconduct last year, the highest number since it began making records available on its website in 2018.
Even Robinson’s mother had a hard time dealing with him, The Post has learned.
Robinson’s roommate said her mother moved in for a few months to help Robinson last year before kicking her out of the house as she was dying of cancer.
“There was a rift, so his mother made him leave the house,” a roommate said on condition of anonymity.
“He was drinking alcohol.”
“He said he was taking care of her, but he wasn’t really doing what he was supposed to do,” she recalled. “He was just here. She’s basically been undergoing treatments, like chemotherapy, and she’s basically been waiting for him, and I couldn’t agree to that.”
Robinson’s roommate said he got into a fight with his mother.
Robinson has three prior arrests, including a domestic offense on Staten Island in 2022, robbery in 2012, and grand theft of a motor vehicle in 2011, all in Queens.
According to a criminal complaint filed by authorities, Robinson, along with two accomplices, waved into a white Lincoln Town car around 2 a.m. on Oct. 12, 2012, at Jamaica Avenue and 179th Street.
At one point, he put his hands around the driver’s neck and “began strangling” the driver from the back seat, demanding the driver hand over all of his property, prosecutors said in documents.
“Just shoot me,” the other robber barked, according to the complaint.
One of the robbers hit the driver in the head and held a razor blade to his neck as he tried to take the keys from the ignition.
Officials said the trio took rings, cellphones and cash.
Robinson served five years at the Orleans Correctional Facility before being paroled in 2022.
