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Pashinin, a 20-year-old Westchester man, was sentenced to three and a half years in prison for pushing a stranger off a train at a Brooklyn subway station. In the case, the victim suffered only minor injuries and climbed back onto the platform before the train entered the station.
brooklyn (Brooklyn) District Attorney Eric Gonzalez announced that Andrew Pashinin, a 20-year-old man from Harrison (Westchester Country), New York, was charged with pushing a stranger off the street in Brooklyn (Brooklyn).subway Track was sentenced on the 23rd by Brooklyn Superior Court Judge Rhonda Tomlinson to three and a half years in prison, with an additional two years of supervised release after release.
The Brooklyn District Attorney’s Office said that on the morning of December 7, 2024, Pashinin, who was a teenager at the time, was at Atlantic Avenue-Barclays.subway station A 33-year-old man approached from behind with a knife on the southbound platform of the D Line. Then he removed the knife, took out the camera and started filming the man. After an argument between the two, the man turned and walked away, and Pashinin pushed him off the subway track. The man suffered some scratches but managed to get onto the platform before the train entered the station.
Pashinin fled the scene and was arrested six weeks later. Two months earlier, a jury ruled that Pashinin was not guilty of attempted murder, but guilty of attempted first-degree assault and fourth-degree criminal possession of a weapon. He could have been sentenced to up to 15 years in prison.
Brooklyn District Attorney Chiang Sayle said he was fortunate the victim was not seriously injured. “Every New Yorker’s greatest fear is being pushed off the subway tracks without warning.” “The current sentence holds the defendant accountable for this behavior,” Chiang Salle said.
In recent years, cases of people being pushed onto subway platforms in New York City have become frequent and have become a shadow in the minds of passengers. For example, on March 14 this year, at Manhattan’s Dykeman Street Station, a man was pushed off the A Line track, walked onto the platform without being hit by the train, and was sent to the hospital for treatment; In March this year, at the 50th Street station in midtown Manhattan, a 44-year-old man was pushed off the tracks by a stranger on a Saturday night, but walked onto the platform on his own without being hit by a train; On July 18, at the 57th Street–7th Avenue station in Midtown Manhattan, a 70-year-old woman was pushed off the tracks from behind by a strange man and bystanders pulled her back onto the platform. There were injury marks on his head.
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The defendant is Andrew Pashinin, a 20-year-old man from Harrison, Westchester County, New York. The court found him guilty of pushing a stranger off the tracks at a metro station and was ultimately sentenced to three and a half years in prison.
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A Brooklyn Superior Court judge sentenced him to three and a half years in prison, followed by two years of supervised release. Prosecutors said he could have faced up to 15 years in prison, but the jury found him not guilty of attempted murder.
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On December 7, 2024, Pashinin approached another party on the southbound platform of the D Line at the Atlantic Avenue–Barclays Center station and filmed him holding a knife. After an argument he pushed the 33-year-old man off the track. The victim suffered only scratches and climbed back onto the platform before the train entered the station.
