Ex-con who punched woman on NYC train stabbed to death by her boyfriend: cops

The straphanger stabbed to death on a Brooklyn train was an ex-con who’d been harassing a couple on board – and punched the woman before her boyfriend knifed him in the chest, police sources said Wednesday. 

Devictor Ouedraogo, 36, was hassling other commuters on board a northbound J train approaching Marcy Avenue in Williamsburg Tuesday evening when he started arguing with Jordan Williams, 20, and his gal pal, the sources said. 

During the clash, Ouedraogo, of Bedford-Stuyvesant, socked the woman in the face, the sources said. 

Ouedraogo and Williams tussled on the train and had each other in headlocks at one point before the younger man allegedly pulled a knife and stabbed the other twice, sources said.

The wounded man stumbled out of the train and onto the platform, the sources said. 

Officers responded to a 911 call about the stabbing just after 8 p.m., cops said.

The man killed on a Brooklyn train late Tuesday had been harassing a couple before he was fatally stabbed by the male partner, cops said.

EMS also responded and rushed Ouedraogo to Brooklyn Methodist Hospital, where he was pronounced dead. 

The couple stayed on the train, but were tracked down by police at the Chauncey Street station, the sources said. 

Williams, of Hollis, Queens, was charged late Wednesday morning with manslaughter and criminal possession of a weapon, authorities said.

Police sources say the stabbing victim had punched a woman in the face.

The woman, whose age was not released, was initially also in custody as a “person of interest,” but was later released, cops said.

Police have said the couple did not know Ouedraogo prior to the fatal clash. Cops are reviewing cell phone footage from the deadly scuffle.

Ouedraogo did time in state prison in August 2009 for an attempted robbery in Queens, records show.

The suspected stabber was not immediately charged, pending conferral with the DA’s office.

He was sentenced to three and a half years and was paroled in April of 2012 to immigration.

It wasn’t immediately clear whether he was deported post-release, or where he was from originally.

Williams’ attorney Jason Goldman compared his client’s case to Daniel Penny’s, the former Marine was indicted on manslaughter charges Wednesday in the chokehold death of Jordan Neely aboard an F train last month.

“It’s upsetting to see that Mr. Williams is even being charged without a thorough investigation. We already know that the victim punched his girlfriend and menaced passengers,” said Goldman. “Is Mr. Williams not getting the same treatment that Mr. Penny received — released, voluntary surrender, and low bail — because his skin color is different and he comes from a particular neighborhood?

“Instead, those very factors will likely result in Mr. Williams, a young boy, fighting this case of clear self-defense from a cage at Rikers.”

Penny, 24, is free on $100,000 bail.

Penny said in a recent interview that he believes Neely — who suffered from mental illness — “would have killed somebody” if he had acted on the threats he yelled at straphangers.

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