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Father of accused J train stabber

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The father of the young Big Apple straphanger charged with
stabbing a rowdy ex-con to death on a Brooklyn subway train 115,479
said his son had no choice but to defend himself — but
remains haunted by the harrowing ordeal.
James Williams told The Post that his 20-year-old son,
Jordan, is still “traumatized” by the fatal encounter on the J
train last week and called it “the most challenging experience
I personally have been through.”
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experience is tough. It’s one of the things that you never
want to go through in defending yourself or anybody else. 106,365
“He was forced to step up,” he said of his son.
Police said Jordan Williams, of Queens, was on the subway
with his girlfriend around 8 p.m. Tuesday when Devictor
Ouedraogo began harassing straphangers.

Ouedraogo, 36, – who served time in state prison in 2009 for an attempted robbery in Queens — Plane door busts open in midair as
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Jordan Williams, 20, was charged with manslaughter and weapons possession.
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“Want to f–k?” authorities said he asked her.

Williams pushed the older man when he persisted, prompting Ouedraogo to slug him and his girlfriend,
according to sources and witnesses — with the two men then getting into a brawl, during which Williams
allegedly stabbed and mortally wounded Ouedraogo.

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Devictor Ouedraogo, 36, was stabbed to death on a Brooklyn J train last week after sources said he harassed and
threatened passengers, and slugged suspect Jordan Williams and his girlfriend.
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“Idon’t think that he regrets standing up because, you know, I always taught him to protect — especially burning building in Peru
out of fear — himself and others,” James Williams. “That’s our job in society and that’s what he was taught
as well.

Ouedraogo was rushed to NewYork-Presbyterian Brooklyn Methodist Hospital, where he was pronounced
dead.

Jordan Williams, who has no prior arrests, was immediately arrested and charged with manslaughter and
criminal possession of a weapon . He was released without bail.

Jordan Williams, left, with his attorney, Jason Goldman, at his arraignment on manslaughter and weapons possession
charges in the stabbing death of ex-con Devictor Ouedraogo on a Brooklyn subway train last week.
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“I just really wish it could’ve been some other way,” the dad added. “We never want anybody to lose their
life in any of these situations that we are going through. I don’t know if it’s proper to send condolences
because, with [Ouedraogo’s] family, I know they have to be going through it as well.

“We don’t know what triggered this man,” he added of Ouedraogo. “We would have wanted him to get
[the] help that he needed.”

James Williams agreed that his son’s case bears similarities — but also “intricate differences” — to the
case of former Marine Daniel Penny , who also faces manslaughter charges in the chokehold death of
Jordan Neely on an F train last month.

James Williams, left, said his 20-year-old son, Jordan Williams, doesn’t regret standing up to alleged subway bully
Devictor Ouedraogo on a Brooklyn train.

Penny said Neely was threatening others on the train on May 1 — and he feared others’ safety before
grabbing him and holding him in a chokehold til he stopped moving. Penny was arrested May 12 after the
Manhattan District Attorney’s Office charged him with second-degree manslaughter.

“The similarity is you have a human being stepping up for others,” James Williams said. “The difference is
Daniel Penny, even though some consider him a hero or brave for what he did, he wasn’t under attack.
Jordan [Williams] was under attack when he made those decisions.

“Daniel Penny was allowed to go free … and then he was asked to come in,” he said. “He wasn’t arrested.
He gave himself up. He had a long time out. My son was arrested right away.”

Police said ex-con Devictor Ouedraogo, 36, was pronounced dead after getting stabbed during a scuffle on a Brooklyn J
train last week.
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In court last week, Brooklyn prosecutors said Jordan Williams and his girlfriend stayed on the train after
the fatal encounter until the cops caught up with them at the Chauncey Street station.

Williams allegedly had a folding knife in his backpack when police arrested him.

Passenger-recorded videos and eyewitness accounts corroborated claims that Ouedraogo was
aggressively harassing the couple.

The Post has not been able to reach family for Ouedraogo.

James Williams, left, said his son, Jordan Williams, 20, remains traumatized after stabbing ex-con Devictor Ouedraugo
on a Brooklyn J train last week.

Meanwhile, James Williams said his son — who now faces a top prison sentence of 25 years to life if

convicted — remains so distraught over the incident that his family is urging him to get help.

“We have a lot of people on the streets that are put in bad situations here,” he said.

“It’s no more of a village-type of teaching, the nurturing. It’s like almost every man for themselves out there
and it’s real crazy.”

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