The straphanger stabbed to death on a Brooklyn train was an ex-con who’d been harassing a couple on board – and punched the woman before her boyfriend knifed him in the chest, police sources said Wednesday.
Devictor Ouedraogo, 36, was hassling other commuters on board a northbound J train approaching Marcy Avenue in Williamsburg Tuesday evening when he started arguing with Jordan Williams, 20, and his gal pal, the sources said.
During the clash, Ouedraogo, of Bedford-Stuyvesant, socked the woman in the face, the sources said.
Ouedraogo and Williams tussled on the train and had each other in headlocks at one point before the younger man allegedly pulled a knife and stabbed the other twice, sources said.
The wounded man stumbled out of the train and onto the platform, the sources said.
Officers responded to a 911 call about the stabbing just after 8 p.m., cops said.
EMS also responded and rushed Ouedraogo to Brooklyn Methodist Hospital, where he was pronounced dead.
The couple stayed on the train, but were tracked down by police at the Chauncey Street station, the sources said.
Williams, of Hollis, Queens, was charged late Wednesday morning with manslaughter and criminal possession of a weapon, authorities said.
The woman, whose age was not released, was initially also in custody as a “person of interest,” but was later released, cops said.
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Devictor Ouedraogo, 36, was hassling other commuters on board a J train Tuesday evening when he started arguing with Jordan Williams, 20, and his girlfriend, sources said.
Ouedraogo was eventually stabbed to death by Williams, police and sources said.
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Police and EMS rushed Ouedraogo to Brooklyn Methodist Hospital, where he was pronounced dead.
Williams was released without bail Thursday after his arraignment in Brooklyn Criminal Court.
Williams has been charged with manslaughter and criminal possession of a weapon, authorities said.
He faces up to 25 years in prison for the first charge, while the second could tack on an extra 12 months.
Police have said the couple did not know Ouedraogo prior to the fatal clash. Cops are reviewing cell phone footage from the deadly scuffle.
Ouedraogo did time in state prison in August 2009 for an attempted robbery in Queens, records show.
He was sentenced to three and a half years and was paroled in April of 2012 to immigration.
It wasn’t immediately clear whether he was deported post-release, or where he was from originally.
Williams’ attorney Jason Goldman compared his client’s case to Daniel Penny’s, the former Marine was indicted on manslaughter charges Wednesday in the chokehold death of Jordan Neely aboard an F train last month.
“It’s upsetting to see that Mr. Williams is even being charged without a thorough investigation. We already know that the victim punched his girlfriend and menaced passengers,” said Goldman.
“Is Mr. Williams not getting the same treatment that Mr. Penny received — released, voluntary surrender, and low bail — because his skin color is different and he comes from a particular neighborhood?”
“Instead, those very factors will likely result in Mr. Williams, a young boy, fighting this case of clear self-defense from a cage at Rikers.”
Penny, 24, is free on $100,000 bail.
Penny said in a recent interview that he believes Neely — who suffered from mental illness — “would have killed somebody” if he had acted on the threats he yelled at straphangers.
