Harrison Man, 20, Cleared of Murder Bid in Barclays Subway Shove

A 20-year-old Harrison man has been acquitted of attempted murder for shoving a stranger onto the subway tracks at the Atlantic Avenue-Barclays Center station in Brooklyn, though jurors convicted him of attempted assault and criminal possession of a weapon stemming from the same encounter. Andrew Pashinin now faces sentencing in October, with the reduced charges still carrying the possibility of significant prison time.

According to the Kings County District Attorney's Office, prosecutors alleged Pashinin shoved the 33-year-old victim from behind onto the tracks during the December 2024 incident. As reported by News12 Brooklyn, the confrontation began after Pashinin and the man had a verbal dispute, and the victim walked away afterward, only for Pashinin to follow him, begin recording him with a camera, and eventually pull out a knife before putting it away and pushing him onto the tracks.

The victim managed to escape from the tracks before a train entered the station, suffering pain and bruising in the process. A separate account of the December 2024 incident, posted to Facebook and attributing the information to the man's family, identified the victim as Jonathan Khadaroo, a 33-year-old Brooklyn plumber and construction worker who said he credited his physical conditioning and a surge of panic for helping him pull himself back onto the platform seconds before the train arrived.

Arrest Came Weeks Later, After a Tip From Wanted Flyers

Pashinin was not taken into custody until roughly a month after the incident. Per the Brooklyn Eagle, NYPD Warrant Squad officers arrested Pashinin at 7:20 a.m. on January 21, 2025, at his mother's home in Yonkers after recognizing him from digital NYPD Crime Stoppers wanted flyers generated from station surveillance footage that had captured him carrying a Party City bag on the platform at the time of the altercation.

Following his arrest, Pashinin made unsolicited statements to reporters during a police perp walk at the Coney Island-Stillwell Avenue station, telling them he shoved the victim because the man had pushed him and “said mean things” to him, according to the BK Reader. The Brooklyn District Attorney's Office announced in February 2025 that Pashinin had been indicted on charges including second-degree attempted murder, first-degree attempted assault, reckless endangerment, assault, menacing, and fourth-degree criminal possession of a weapon, a slate that carried a maximum potential sentence of 25 years in prison on the top count, per the Brooklyn Paper.

At his February 2025 arraignment, Brooklyn Supreme Court Justice Herbert Moses ordered Pashinin held without bail and mandated a court-ordered psychiatric evaluation before the case could proceed to trial, according to the Brooklyn District Attorney's Office. Pashinin's attorney had no comment on the verdict, per News12.

What the Acquittal Means Under New York Law

The jury's split verdict reflects the legal threshold prosecutors had to clear to prove attempted murder: they needed to show beyond a reasonable doubt that Pashinin specifically intended to kill the victim, rather than intending serious physical harm or acting recklessly. Under New York State penal law, second-degree attempted murder is a Class B violent felony carrying up to 25 years in prison, while attempted assault in the first degree is a Class C violent felony punishable by up to 15 years, and fourth-degree criminal possession of a weapon is a Class A misdemeanor punishable by up to one year in jail, per the Brooklyn Paper. Pashinin is scheduled to be sentenced in October, and while he escaped the potential 25-year term tied to the murder charge, his attempted assault conviction alone still exposes him to substantial state prison time.

Platform Shoves Are Rising Even as Overall Subway Crime Falls

The case lands amid a broader pattern of platform-shoving incidents across the transit system. NYPD transit crime data compiled in early 2025 showed that while overall major subway crime in New York City fell in 2024, platform shoving incidents rose from 17 in 2023 to 24 in 2024, according to data shared on Facebook. A Manhattan Institute study published in January 2025 found that felony assaults in the subway system had tripled since 2009, with violent incidents heavily concentrated at high-volume hubs like Atlantic Avenue-Barclays Center, one of Brooklyn's busiest stations, connecting nine subway lines and the Long Island Rail Road.

State and city officials have responded with new funding and infrastructure. New York State allocated $77 million in December 2025 to fund enhanced NYPD subway patrols through 2026, maintaining a daily surge of more than 600 officers assigned specifically to subway platforms and trains. By late 2025, the MTA had also installed yellow platform edge safety barriers at more than 115 subway stations, a measure transit data showed reduced track trespassing and intrusion incidents by 11% where deployed, since full platform screen doors were deemed logistically and financially unfeasible across all 472 MTA stations.

Hoodline has covered a survivor's criticism of subway safety plans following a separate Brooklyn track shove, and has reported on other recent platform incidents, including a Manhattan DA's indictment in a Chelsea stair shove and a Queens shove that left a 62-year-old with a fractured skull, underscoring how frequently these attacks continue to surface across the system even as city and state leaders tout falling overall crime numbers.