FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Tuesday, October 13, 2026
Brooklyn Man Sentenced to 10 Years in Prison for
Punching and Stomping Subway Passenger on “A” Train
Attack Captured on Surveillance Video; Additional Video Tracked Defendant
After he Left the Train and Headed to his Residence
Brooklyn District Attorney Eric Gonzalez today announced that a Brooklyn man was sentenced to 10 years in prison for punching a subway passenger and then stomping on his head and face approximately 30 times after he fell to the floor. The defendant pleaded guilty to attempted murder last month.
District Attorney Gonzalez said, “This was a vicious act of senseless violence that left a straphanger seriously injured. The defendant’s cowardly violence, stomping the victim 30 times as he lay helpless on the subway floor, cannot be tolerated. Today’s sentence ensures the defendant is held accountable and reinforces our commitment to keeping our transit system safe.”
The District Attorney identified the defendant as Jason Reyes, 37, of East New York, Brooklyn. He was sentenced today by Brooklyn Supreme Court Justice Matthew Blum to 10 years in prison and five years’ post-release supervision. The defendant pleaded guilty to second-degree attempted murder on September 28, 2026.
The District Attorney said that, according to the evidence, on October 20, 2024, at approximately 4:35 a.m., the victim, a 37-year-old man, and another man were sitting in the middle of the train car on a southbound “A” train heading from Lafayette Avenue, in Brooklyn, to Far Rockaway in Queens. The defendant was sitting at the other end of the train car when he saw the victim throw a French fry at a female passenger.
The defendant confronted the victim, according to the evidence, demanded that he apologize and punched him in the head several times, causing him to fall to the floor.
Furthermore, according to the evidence, as the victim lay on the floor, the defendant kicked him in the body, then used his right foot to repeatedly stomp the victim in the face and head more than 30 times over the course of several minutes. The victim’s friend tried to intervene, telling the defendant: “You’re going to kill [him], we have to call the police.” The defendant then threatened that man and punched him in the face.
Finally, according to the evidence, the defendant filmed the attack with his cell phone while stomping on the victim, rummaged through the victim’s pockets, taking $60 and a cell phone, which he then threw at the victim’s face. The defendant then exited the train and walked home to his residence on Pitkin Avenue.
Several passengers called 911 and the victim was taken to Brookdale Hospital with a fractured orbital bone and nose, a traumatic brain injury, bleeding in the brain, and a laceration to the forehead and lip. He also suffered bruising and swelling of his face and was hospitalized for four days.
The defendant was arrested following an investigation that involved identifying him from surveillance video of the attack and other surveillance images of him leaving the train and walking into his residence.
The case was prosecuted by Assistant District Attorney Alexis Lightner, of the District Attorney’s Orange Zone Trial Bureau, under the supervision of Assistant District Attorney Andrea Orlando, Bureau Chief.
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