Jordan Williams, the Queens man charged with manslaughter for stabbing an ex-con harassing his girlfriend on the J train, will not face prosecution, his lawyer and Brooklyn prosecutors confirmed Wednesday after it was determined that he acted in self-defense.
The Brooklyn grand jury hearing the case declined to indict him for weapons charges and killing Devictor Ouedraogo, 36, who was recorded on video harassing Williams’s girlfriend on June 14 as the train crossed the Williamsburg Bridge just after 8 p.m.
“Our office conducted an impartial and thorough investigation of this tragic case, which included review of multiple videos and interviews with all available witnesses, and that evidence was fairly presented to a grand jury,” said Brooklyn district attorney spokesman Oren Yaniv. “Today, the charges against Jordan Williams have been dismissed.”
Under New York law, a person is justified in using deadly physical force when they reasonably believe it is necessary to use such force to defend themselves or others from “imminent use of deadly or unlawful physical force.”
The deadly subway brawl echoed the death of Jordan Neely, a homeless subway busker and Michael Jackson impersonator who died from a fatal chokehold by a Marine veteran who claims he tried to stop him from harming others on a Manhattan F train.
The Marine, Daniel Penny, pleaded not guilty earlier Wednesday to second-degree manslaughter and criminally negligent manslaughter.
In the J train incident, Ouedraogo, who appeared to be drunk, was talking about “white power” before asking the girlfriend if she wanted to have sex, with Williams then shoving the victim as things escalated, according to court records.
Two videos shared with the Daily News show him bothering other straphangers, as well.
During the fight, Williams pulled a pocket knife and stabbed the harassing ex-con in the chest, cops said.
“I just stabbed that n—–,” the suspect, who on the video is dressed in blue, told…
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