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   NEW YORK -- A man who shot and critically wounded another passenger on a   
   New York City subway train may have acted in self-defense and will not   
   immediately be charged with any crime, prosecutors said Friday.   
      
   “Yesterday’s shooting inside a crowded subway car was shocking and deeply   
   upsetting. 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,” said Oren Yaniv, a spokesperson for Brooklyn   
   District Attorney Eric Gonzalez.   
      
   The shooting during Thursday's rush hour came a week after Gov. Kathy   
   Hochul sent the National Guard into the subway system to help police   
   search people for weapons, citing a need to make people feel safer after a   
   series of headline-making crimes in recent months.   
      
   Video taken by a bystander and posted on social media showed a   
   confrontation that began with one passenger berating another and   
   repeatedly threatening to beat him up. The two men squared off and fought   
   before they were separated by another rider.   
      
   Then the belligerent rider who had started the confrontation pulled a gun   
   from his jacket and cocked it. Passengers fled and cowered at the far end   
   of the car, some screaming, “Stop! Stop!” The shooting isn't seen, but   
   gunshots can be heard as passengers flee from the train as it arrives at a   
   station.   
      
   Police said that the 36-year-old man who had pulled the gun lost control   
   of it during the altercation. The other man, 32, got possession and shot   
   him.   
      
   The man who was shot was hospitalized in critical condition. Police have   
   not identified either man.   
      
   Michael Kemper, the Police Department’s chief of transit, said at a   
   briefing late Thursday that witnesses had reported that the man who was   
   shot was being “aggressive and provocative."   
      
   New York City Mayor Eric Adams, a former transit police officer, said he   
   believes the man who was shot was suffering from “mental health illness.”   
      
   “When you look at that video, you’ll see the nexus between someone who   
   appears, from what I saw, to be dealing with severe mental health illness,   
   sparking a dispute on our subway system,” Adams said on radio station 77   
   WABC.   
      
   Adams urged state lawmakers to give New York City more authority to remove   
   mentally ill people from the streets and the subway system involuntarily.   
      
   NYPD Chief of Department Jeffrey Maddrey said at a briefing Friday that   
   the man who was shot had entered through an open emergency door without   
   paying the $2.90 subway fare and suggested that the shooting highlights   
   the need to crack down on fare evasion.   
      
   “It is important that the NYPD enforces quality of life,” Maddrey said.   
   “It’s important that we enforce that service and people who are not paying   
   the fare, oftentimes we see people enter the subway station looking to   
   cause harm and they never pay the fare."   
      
   Violence in the New York City subway system is rare, but serious incidents   
   such as a passenger’s slashing of a subway conductor in the neck last   
   month, and a shooting on a Bronx subway platform, have attracted   
   attention.   
      
   https://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory/prosecutors-new-york-subway-shooting-   
   defense-108166025   
      
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