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VIDEO REVEALS GUN-TOTING RIDER WHO SPARKED NYC RUSH-HOUR SUBWAY SHOOTING DODGED
FARE AS COPS PUSH QUALITY-OF-LIFE CRACKDOWN

By Joe Marino, Amanda Woods and Kate Sheehy

Published March 15, 2024
Updated March 15, 2024, 12:12 p.m. ET

Newly surfaced video shows the gun-toting straphanger who launched Thursday’s
violent Brooklyn subway confrontation sauntering through an emergency gate to
dodge the fare, NYPD officials said Friday — as they defended policing
quality-of-life issues. 

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Rider Dajuan Robinson, 36, was shot in the head with his own weapon after
suddenly going berserk on a 32-year-old male straphanger on an A train as it
pulled into the Hoyt-Schermerhorn Street station Thursday night, cops and
law-enforcement sources say.

The shooter, who video shows had been threatened and harassed, is
in policy custody.

It is unclear who might face charges and what they might be, but the Brooklyn
District Attorney’s Office will ultimately make that decision as police
detectives continue to investigate, NYPD Chief of Department Jeffrey Maddrey
told reporters.

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The shooter, who had been threatened and harassed, is in police custody.
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The NYPD released video showing the gun-toting straphanger dodged the subway
fare Thursday. DCPI
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Straphangers hoped the situation wouldn’t escalate, according to a journalist at
the scene. @JoyceMeetsWorld/X-ABC

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When Robinson entered the crowded train, he began harassing the other man,
although it wasn’t immediately known why, police sources said Friday.

During Robinson’s meltdown, he snarled at the other man, “I’ll beat you up! You
think you’re gonna beat up cops?’’

A woman off-camera said, “He thinks you’re a migrant, he thinks you’re an
immigrant,” apparently referencing the rowdy migrant mob caught on camera
pounding a pair of officers  around Times Square in January.

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Robinson then continued raging, “F–k your kind! F–k your race! F–k you!”


A STEP-BY-STEP BREAKDOWN OF WHAT HAPPENED IN THE BROOKLYN SUBWAY SHOOTING

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A dramatic video showed a 36-year-old in a violent interaction with a
32-year-old (in the yellow shirt) before at least four gunshots rang out on the
crowded train.
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As the two were fighting, a woman on the train stabbed the 36-year-old in the
back, making him bleed.
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The 36-year-old then pulled out a gun from his jacket, and charged at the
32-year-old, causing the commuters to erupt into screams. @JoyceMeetsWorld/X-ABC
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At least four gunshots were heard just as the train pulled into the A/C
Hoyt–Schermerhorn Streets station. @JoyceMeetsWorld/X-ABC
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Police said the 32-year-old had managed to wrestle the gun away during the
struggle and use it against his attacker.
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The two strangers tussled for several minutes as others on the train pleaded for
them to stop, saying there were children aboard.
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“I’m bleeding. You stabbed me, right?” the aggressor asked the woman, with blood
beginning to drip down his back.
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The 36-year-old, wearing a black hoodie, can be seen with the gun in his hand,
according to sources.
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Travelers rushed to the opposite end, with several throwing themselves on the
floor. @JoyceMeetsWorld/X-ABC
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The 32-year-old was arrested before he even stepped onto the platform, NYPD
Chief of Transit Michael Kemper said.

A woman with the 32-year-old man being attacked whipped out a knife and stabbed
Robinson, prompting the bleeding man to produce a gun, police sources have said.

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Robinson and his male target then wrestled, with the gun going off, leaving the
36-year-old deranged man with a bullet wound to the head.

“I saw that video, I think I had the same thoughts as you,’’ Maddrey told
reporters. “It seemed like the male [Robinson] was making inferences like he was
a police officer as he was speaking to the person he was having a dispute with.

“Again, it’s just something that was very alarming,’’  Maddrey said.

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“We know we have people in the subway who suffer from mental illness,’’ the top
cop said, suggesting Robinson is mentally ill — a notion put forth by Mayor Eric
Adams earlier in the morning.

Maddrey used the terrifying incident to underscore why cops still go after
fare-beaters, which he called a “quality-of-life’’ issue.

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“Oftentimes we see people entering the subway station, looking to cause harm,
and they never pay the fare,’’ he said. “It’s important to address theft of
service and at the same time.’’

He told reporters that 13.3% of riders skipped the fare on the subway system in
the first quarter of the year.

“If you want to keep the system safe, the first thing you have to do is keep bad
people out of the system who don’t pay. This is a perfect example to talk about
it,’’ Deputy Inspector Tarik Sheppard said.

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NYPD Deputy Commissioner of Operations Kaz Daughtry added, “Sometimes people ask
why we do such big operations for somebody not paying a $2.90 fare.

“We are seeing a small group of people, a small group of individuals, who we
catch during these fare-evasion operations that are recidivists that have
warrants, that have guns, that have knives, yet they don’t pay their fare.

“So it’s important for us to do these quality-of-life operations.

“Small things like walking through an exit gate, through an emergency gate,
hopping over the turnstile, leads to big things.’’


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