James Williams said his son, Jordan, remains “traumatized” by the fatal stabbing of ex-con Devictor Ouedraogo on a Brooklyn subway train last week — but had no choice but to defen…
on a Brooklyn subway train said his son had no choice but to defend himself — but remains haunted by the harrowing ordeal.
“He’s young,” the elder Williams said Monday. “This life experience is tough. It’s one of the things that you never want to go through in defending yourself or anybody else.Police said Jordan Williams, of Queens, was on the subway with his girlfriend around 8 p.m. Tuesday when Devictor Ouedraogo began harassing straphangers.
Williams pushed the older man when he persisted, prompting Ouedraogo to slug him and his girlfriend, according to sources and witnesses — with the two men then getting into a brawl, during which Williams allegedly stabbed and mortally wounded Ouedraogo.Devictor Ouedraogo, 36, was stabbed to death on a Brooklyn J train last week after sources said he harassed and threatened passengers, and slugged suspect Jordan Williams and his girlfriend.
“We don’t know what triggered this man,” he added of Ouedraogo. “We would have wanted him to get [the] help that he needed.”
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