The man fighting for his life after he was shot with his own gun during a bloody, caught-on-camera brawl on a Brooklyn subway train was part of a stick-up crew that robbed a livery cab driver in Queens more than a decade ago — a violent hold-up that still haunts the victim.
“They were trying to kill me that day,” the livery cab driver told the Daily News, stunned to learn that one of the three suspects in the October 2012 robbery tried to shoot another man on a packed A train Thursday night, but was instead shot twice in the head.
“[There] was some sharp knife. He wanted to cut my throat. I just took my hand and covered my neck, so he just caught my hand.”
On Saturday, the 36-year-old gun-wielding man remained in critical condition while being treated at a hospital for the wounds he suffered on the subway train — which beside the shots to his head include one shot to his neck and another to his chest. The man was shot with his own gun by a younger man who wrested it from him. The wounded man is not being named by The News.