Jordan Williams, the 20-year-old man who was accused of fatally stabbing a New York City subway rider, will avoid prosecution, city officials say.
, will avoid prosecution, city officials said Wednesday. A grand jury declined to indict Williams on manslaughter and weapons charges in connection with the June 13 deadly stabbing of Devictor Quedraogo, 36, on a Brooklyn J train.
“Our office conducted an impartial and thorough investigation of this tragic case, which included review of multiple videos and interviews with all available witnesses, and that evidence was fairly presented to a grand jury," a statement from the Brooklyn District Attorney’s office said."Today, the charges against Jordan Williams have been dismissed." Williams was arrested following the incident earlier this month, with his attorney, Jason Goldman, previously saying that his client had acted in self-defense."Under New York law, a person is justified in using deadly physical force when they reasonably believe it is necessary to use such force to defend themselves or others from imminent use of deadly or unlawful physical force," the DA's office said in its statement.Addressing the grand jury's decision on Wednesday, Williams said he had been"scared in that situation,"The deadly altercation unfolded just after 8 p.m. on June 13 on a northbound J train as it approached Marcy Avenue and Broadway, New York police had said. Ouedraogo was taken to New York-Presbyterian Brooklyn Methodist Hospital with a stab wound to the chest and was later pronounced dead at the hospital, police said.that Ouedraogo had allegedly been harassing people on the train and acting belligerently and erratically. A police official told the station that one of the people he harassed was Williams' girlfriend, with a source telling NBC New York that Ouedraogo had punched her. It was not clear what exactly unfolded in the lead-up to the stabbing.Early on, the deadly incident had drawn comparisons to the altercation resulting in the , a former Michael Jackson impersonator who died in May after a U.S. Marine veteran allegedly put him in a chokehold on a New York City subway train.The same day that Williams' charges were dropped, the suspect in Neely's death, Daniel Penny, 24, pleaded not guilty to second-degree manslaughter and criminally negligent homicide in Neely's death. In the May 1 incident, Neely was alleged to have been shouting and begging for money when Penny pinned him to the floor of the moving subway car with the help of two other passengers and held him in a chokehold for more than three minutes. Neely lost consciousness during the incident and was pronounced dead at a hospital.
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