A Brooklyn man on Friday was sentenced to 10 years in prison following his guilty plea to attempted murder for opening fire inside a crowded subway car during the evening rush hour.
The defendant, identified as Alexander Villafana, 22, of Cypress Hills, by Brooklyn District Attorney Eric Gonzalez, was on the C train on November 28, 2023 at approximately 5:35pm.
As the northbound C train approached the Ralph Avenue station in Bedford-Stuyvesant, Villafana got into a verbal altercation with a 17-year-old boy. The dispute escalated, and the defendant pulled out a gun and fired several shots, one of which struck the teen in the hand. As a 52-year-old passenger fled to an adjacent train car, he was struck in the ankle. A 9mm shell casing and fired bullets were recovered from the subway car, Gonzalez said…