A teen was busted Tuesday for allegedly shoving a person onto Brooklyn subway tracks final month — and advised reporters he did it as a result of the sufferer “said mean things” to him.
Andrew Pashinin, 19, of Harrison, NY, was arrested round 7:20 a.m. and faces a second-degree homicide rap in connection to the 11:40 a.m. Dec. 7 assault on a 33-year-old man on the Atlantic Avenue-Barclays Heart station, cops mentioned.
Pashinin was fast to clarify his alleged burst of violence to assembled reporters and photographers as detectives walked him out of the NYPD’s Transit District 34 headquarters and into an awaiting patrol automobile Tuesday afternoon.
“He said he was drunk and public intox,” Pashinin mentioned. “Mainly he pushed me. He mentioned imply issues to me earlier than I arrived on the station. All people needs to be wanting up that data proper now about what occurred earlier than I pushed him.
“He said some things to me like he was going to beat my ass, and that I was a little kid,” added the bespectacled teen, wearing a grey jacket over a black T-shirt and sweatpants.
Regulation enforcement sources say Pashinin had a knife on him as he stood on the southbound D and N platform behind the sufferer.
The older man whipped round and exchanged phrases with Pashinin earlier than strolling away — however Pashinin ran up behind him and shoved him, the sources mentioned.
The sufferer managed to make it again up onto the platform with solely minor accidents and refused medical consideration on the scene, cops mentioned.
In the meantime, Pashinin managed to get away on foot, police mentioned.
Pashinin — who was picked up by the NYPD’s Warrants Squad at his mom’s home — was additionally charged with second-degree assault, first-degree reckless endangerment, second-degree menacing, third-degree assault and fourth-degree legal possession of a weapon in connection to the assault, cops mentioned.
He has a few prior arrests within the Huge Apple, however they’re sealed, cops mentioned.
Pashinin wasn’t the one alleged subway shover to strike final month.
On Dec. 1, a still-at-large girl allegedly shoved Steven Morales, 43, onto the subway tracks at Kosciuszko Road.
The deranged, trenchcoat-wearing suspect had been screaming “at the imaginary” earlier than randomly concentrating on Morales as he handed by — shoving him onto the J practice roadbed, in accordance with the sufferer and legislation enforcement sources.
And on New 12 months’s Eve, Kamel Hawkins, 23, allegedly pushed 45-year-old Joseph Lynskey into the trail of a No. 1 practice that was barreling into the 18th Road station in Chelsea.
Extremely, the sufferer survived the harrowing, caught-on-video assault — however was left with a cracked cranium, fractured ribs and a ruptured spleen.
Hawkins, who sources say has a violent previous that features an assault on a police officer, was charged with tried homicide and assault by the Manhattan District Lawyer’s Workplace.
