J train stabber Jordan Williams released without bail after arraignment

The man accused of fatally stabbing an ex-con who punched his girlfriend on a J train this week was released without bail Thursday after his arraignment in Brooklyn Criminal Court.

Assistant District Attorney had asked the judge to impose$100,000 cash bail on Jordan Williams, the 20-year-old from Hollis, Queens, who allegedly knifed Devictor Ouedraogo on Tuesday during a subway struggle.

But the judge refused, instead electing to cut Williams loose.

“Thank you, Jesus!” his godmother exclaimed in court, while Williams’ mother — who had compared her son to Daniel Penny as a good Samaritan who was trying to protect people — smiled.

Williams, of Hollis, Queens, has been charged with manslaughter and criminal possession of a weapon, authorities said. He faces up to 25 years in prison for the first charge, while the second could tack on an extra 12 months.

Ingle said Williams has no prior arrests, and the two men did not know each other.

Ouedraogo, 36, was allegedly harassing commuters aboard the train as it approached Marcy Avenue in Williamsburg on Tuesday evening, the district attorney told the court.

Ouedraogo, of Bedford-Stuyvesant, approached Williams’ girlfriend and asked, “Want to f–k?” Ingle said.

Williams told the man to get away from them, but Ouedraogo kept harassing his girlfriend. So Williams pushed him away and told him not to come closer.

“The deceased took one step to the defendant, and punched the defendant one or two times,” Ingle said. “He removed a folding knife and stabbed the deceased in the chest. The deceased got off the train at Marcy Ave and collapsed on the platform.”

Cops responding to a 911 call found him at about 8 p.m., and EMS rushed him to Brooklyn Methodist Hospital, where he died.

The pair stayed on the train until the cops caught up with them at the Chauncy Street station, Ingle said.

Williams allegedly had a folding knife in his backpack when police arrested him.

Passenger-recorded videos and eyewitness accounts corroborated claims that Ouedraogo – who served time in state prison in 2009 for an attempted robbery in Queens – was aggressively harassing the couple, Ingle said.

Jason Goldman, Williams’ attorney, said it was “upsetting to see that Mr. Williams is even being charged without a thorough investigation.”

Meanwhile, his mom, April Williams, has compared her son to Penny, the 24-yearold former Marine who was indicted this week for killing troubled homeless man Jordan Neely after Neely allegedly threatened passengers on a subway in Manhattan last month.

Her son “acted with courage to defend himself and passengers from a physically violent, reckless, and deranged individual,” April Williams wrote.

“Simply stated, these cases have become all too familiar in NYC, and this situation resembles that of Daniel Penny – who is out on bail and able to defend himself freely,” April Williams wrote on a GiveSendGo fundraiser she created. wrote. “We just pray for that same opportunity!”

The fundraiser, which she said is to cover his legal bills, had garnered about $3,500 as of Thursday afternoon.