Man charged with assaulting MTA B26 bus driver

November 29, 2024 Brooklyn Eagle Staff

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BED-STUY — A MAN HAS BEEN CHARGED with strangling a B26 bus driver after a vehicle accident, according to ABC7 and Brooklyn Criminal Court. According to the prosecution, Shevaughn Legall’s vehicle and the bus sideswiped each other in Bed-Stuy on Tuesday. Legall, 25, then allegedly boarded the bus, broke through the driver’s seat partition and grabbed the throat of the 68-year-old driver. The MTA says the incident was captured on camera.

Legall appeared in court on Wednesday, and received supervised release. Senior Vice President of the MTA Bus Company Frank Annicaro expressed his dismay with the judge’s decision to release Legall: “The [District Attorney] takes the steps in order to hold this person off the street. And now the judge just let him walk. I don’t understand this,” he said.

“There is no serious physical injury alleged here,” said Legall’s attorney, of Legal Aid, Nora Wallace. “That’s not the basis of the felony assault and looking at the language of the statute for the alleged strangulation, there is no allegation of stupor or a loss of consciousness. I ask that Your Honor consider that when looking at the factors which strongly weigh in favor of his release on his own recognizance.”

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