Westchester man sentenced for shoving stranger onto Brooklyn subway tracks in 2024
Andrew Pashinin, 20, of Harrison, will serve 3 1/2 years in prison for attacking the 33-year-old man at Atlantic Avenue-Barclays station back on Dec. 7, 2024.
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A Westchester man was sentenced for shoving a stranger onto the subway tracks in Brooklyn, according to Brooklyn District Attorney Eric Gonzalez.
Andrew Pashinin, 20, of Harrison, will serve 3 1/2 years in prison for attacking the 33-year-old man at Atlantic Avenue-Barclays station back on Dec. 7, 2024.
According to investigators, Pashinin, who was a teen at the time, pulled out a knife and started following the victim just after 11:30 a.m.
Prosecutors say Pashinin then put the knife away, pulled out a camera and started recording the victim. An argument then ensued between the two men.
According to the DA, the victim walked away from Pashinin, who followed and shoved the 33-year-old from behind and onto the tracks.
The victim made it back onto the platform and dodged an incoming train by seconds, according to prosecutors.
Pashinin took off after the attack. He was arrested the following month.
According to the DA, Pashinin was acquitted of an attempted murder charge and convicted of attempted assault and criminal possession of a weapon in August.
He was sentenced on Friday.
“It is every New Yorker’s worst fear to be senselessly shoved without warning onto the subway tracks. Today’s sentence holds this defendant accountable for doing just that,” said Gonzalez. “Thankfully, the victim in this case was able to safely get off the tracks just before a train entered the station.”
