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No charges are being filed against the 32-year-old man who fired a gun on a New York City subway, critically injuring one person, prosecutors said, citing “self-defense.”
“Yesterday’s shooting inside a crowded subway car was shocking and deeply upsetting,” Oren Yaniv, a spokesperson for the Brooklyn District Attorney’s Office, said in a statement Friday. “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.”
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The incident began when the 32-year-old got into a verbal and then physical dispute with the shooting victim, possibly over a subway seat, police said. A woman who was with the 32-year-old stabbed the 36-year-old in the back, cellphone video from a fellow rider revealed, according to authorities.
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The physical altercation continued, with the 32-year-old man then grabbing the gun from the 36-year-old, police said.
Shots were fired as the train was pulling into the Hoyt-Schermerhorn station, NYPD Transit Chief Michael Kemper said.
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