What’s News, Breaking: Tuesday, August 22, 2023
MAN WHO PUNCHED & STABBED INNOCENT STRANGER IN SUBWAY SENTENCED TO 10 YEARS
DOWNTOWN BROOKLYN — BROOKLYN D.A. ERIC GONZALEZ ANNOUNCED Tuesday that Roland Henegan, 35, formerly of the Kingsborough Men’s Shelter in Brooklyn, has been sentenced to 10 years in prison for punching and stabbing a 55-year-old man at the Jay Street Subway Station in Downtown Brooklyn. The defendant pleaded guilty to assault for the unprovoked attack in July last year. The victim had been walking down a staircase at the station when Henegan grabbed him, punched him, and then stabbed him in the face and back.
Henegan was sentenced Tuesday by Brooklyn Supreme Court Justice Michael Kitsis.