Was it Self Defense? According to the News Report He is a Crazed Man..But!!!!
Brenddy Garcia, charged in double murder on No. 2 subway train, said he was hit with bottle first
Originally Published:Friday, April 2nd 2010, 11:43 AM
Updated: Friday, April 2nd 2010, 3:02 PM
Updated: Friday, April 2nd 2010, 3:02 PM
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Brenddy Garcia, 19, from Brooklyn, is taken into police custody Friday after being charged with second-degree murder in fatal stabbings on a No. 2 subway train that left two dead.Garcia, who does not have a police record, has confessed to being the knife-wielding butcher in the horrific subway slaughter early Sunday morning, sources said.
"He's the one who did the cutting," a police source said of Garcia.
His friends, Franklin Varella, 21, of Manhattan, and Diogenes Hernandez, 21, of Queens, were also charged with murder after being grilled at the NYPD's 6th Precinct stationhouse on Thursday night.
Then on Friday, the Manhattan DA's office decided not to prosecute them after interviewing more witnesses, some of whom said Garcia and his friends were actually defending themselves from a bunch of drunks who climbed aboard the train at Times Square.
Garcia's arrest gave loved ones of the slain men - Ricardo Williams and Darnell Morel both 24 - some peace of mind.
"It should have never happened," Williams' grieving big sister, Andrea, 25, said Thursday. "I don't have my younger brother anymore because of stupidity and ignorance."
Micaela Rodriguez planned to marry Williams in a few weeks. Now she is preparing to bury him tomorrow.
"It's a little relief that there's going to be justice," she said.
Morel, Williams and several friends were headed home to Brooklyn from a party at the Cellar Bar, located at the Bryant Park Hotel, when the deadly violence erupted, cops and witnesses said.
Williams inadvertently hit Hernandez with a bag of garbage while tossing it at a platform trash receptacle through the train's opening doors, police believe.
Witnesses said Garcia went berserk, stabbing the men and slashing one of their pals as the train rumbled south.
When the No. 2, which was running as a local, reached Christopher St., Garcia fled out of the train and up into the city streets - aided by the fact that the station did not have a working security camera.
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