Crimestoppers photo of Andrew Pashinin
By Dan Murphy
A Harrison teen ager is now facing 25 years in prison for attempted murder after he pushed his victim off of a subway platform in Brooklyn.
The incident occurred last year, on Dec. 7, at 1135 AM, at the Atlantic Avenue-Barclays station in Brooklyn. Andrew Pashinin, 19, of Harrison, got into an argument with a 33 year old man on the subway platform. When Pashinin pulled out a knife, the other man backed off.
Pashinin then started recording the other man with his phone. Shortly after, Pashinin is now charged with pushing the victim onto the subway tracks of the D Train. Pashinin fled the scene, but the victim was able to pull himself onto the platform seconds before a subway car entered the station, and was not seriously injured.
Through the NYPD-Crimestoppers program, digital posters of Pashinin from the subway platform were circulated, and eventually he was identified. After several weeks, the NYPD arrested Pashinin at his mother’s home in Yonkers on Jan. 21. He is being held without bail and was brought to Brooklyn Supreme Court where Brooklyn DA Eric Gonzalez charged him with attempted murder on Feb. 25.
Pashinin, who is getting a psychiatric evaluation before returning to court next month, is also charged with First-degree attempted assault, First and second-degree reckless endangerment, menacing in the Third-degree, and fourth degree criminal possession of a weapon.
DA Gonzalez said, “This was a terrifying attack that is the nightmare of every New Yorker who uses the subway. Luckily, the victim was able to lift himself from the tracks moments before a subway train entered the station. We will now seek to hold this defendant accountable for his alleged, horrifying actions.”
For several days, the smaller NYC Media focused on Pashinin, who relished in his temporary infamy, screaming at reporters during his per walk that “He pushed me and said mean things to me before I arrived at the station,” and “He said he was going to beat my ass and that I was a little kid,” according to Brooklyn paper and New York Metro.
But the NYPD and the Brooklyn DA believe that Pashinin was the aggressor.
