No raps for fight shooter
The Brooklyn straphanger who shot a berserk man attacking him on a rush-hour train will not be charged, prosecutors said Friday — as new video surfaced of the gunman’s bust.
“Yesterday’s shooting inside a crowded subway car was shocking and deeply upsetting,’’ said Oren Yaniv, a spokesman for the Brooklyn District Attorney’s Office, in a statement. “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.”
Thursday’s shooter, identified by law-enforcement sources and a relative as dad-of-two Younece Obuad, 32, was freed after questioning by authorities Friday.
Newly surfaced footage shows him splayed out face-down on stairs in the station with a cop standing over him.
The video also shows the shot man who had been tormenting him, Dajuan Robinson, 36, lying bleeding on the floor of the subway car as another guy repeatedly yells, “Oh, my God!”
The lawyer for Daniel Penny — a former Marine being prosecuted in the Manhattan subway chokehold death of disturbed rider Jordan Neely — told The Post that Friday’s decision to free Obuad is appropriate.
“I applaud the Brooklyn district attorney for exercising the prosecutorial discretion to realize that somebody who was forced to defend himself and others shouldn’t be subjected to a criminal indictment — I think that’s how it should play out,’’ said attorney Thomas Kenniff.
“This is the same environment that confronted my client last year,’’ Kenniff claimed, referring to Penny’s caught-on-video takedown of Neely, which Penny said was in defense of other passengers Neely was threatening.
“It underscores the feeling that so many innocent New Yorkers have that if you’re riding the subway system, you are rendered defenseless,’’ Kenniff said. “Unfortunately in the case of my client, when you do step up to protect yourselves and others, you wind up being persecuted yourself.”
Obuad, who works in smoke shops, was arrested on drug-peddling charges in East New York, Brooklyn, on Feb. 20, sources said. He also had been involved in several domestic incidents, all of which have had their details sealed, but was mostly the victim in those cases, sources said.