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A teen was busted Tuesday for allegedly shoving a man onto Brooklyn subway tracks last month — and told reporters he did it because the victim “said mean things” to him.
Andrew Pashinin, 19, of Harrison, NY, was arrested around 7:20 a.m. and faces a second-degree murder rap in connection to the 11:40 a.m. Dec. 7 attack on a 33-year-old man at the Atlantic Avenue-Barclays Center station, cops said.
Pashinin was quick to explain his alleged burst of violence to assembled reporters and photographers as detectives walked him out of the NYPD’s Transit District 34 headquarters and into an awaiting patrol car Tuesday afternoon.
“He said he was drunk and public intox,” Pashinin said. “Basically he pushed me. He said mean things to me before I arrived at the station. Everybody should be looking up that information right now about what happened before I pushed him.
“He said some things to me like he was going to beat my ass, and that I was a little kid,” added the bespectacled teen, dressed in a gray jacket over a black T-shirt and sweatpants.
Law enforcement sources say Pashinin had a knife on him as he stood on the southbound D and N platform behind the victim.
The older man whipped around and exchanged words with Pashinin before walking away — but Pashinin ran up behind him and shoved him, the sources said.
The victim managed to make it back up onto the platform with only minor injuries and refused medical attention at the scene, cops said.
Meanwhile, Pashinin managed to get away on foot, police said.
Pashinin — who was picked up by the NYPD’s Warrants Squad at his mother’s house — was also charged with second-degree assault, first-degree reckless endangerment, second-degree menacing, third-degree assault and fourth-degree criminal possession of a weapon in connection to the attack, cops said.
He has a couple of prior arrests in the Big Apple, but they are sealed, cops said.
Pashinin wasn’t the only alleged subway shover to strike last month.
On Dec. 1, a still-at-large woman allegedly shoved Steven Morales, 43, onto the subway tracks at Kosciuszko Street.
The deranged, trenchcoat-wearing suspect had been screaming “at the imaginary” before randomly targeting Morales as he passed by — shoving him onto the J train roadbed, according to the victim and law enforcement sources.
And on New Year’s Eve, Kamel Hawkins, 23, allegedly pushed 45-year-old Joseph Lynskey into the path of a No. 1 train that was barreling into the 18th Street station in Chelsea.
Incredibly, the victim survived the harrowing, caught-on-video assault — but was left with a cracked skull, fractured ribs and a ruptured spleen.
Hawkins, who sources say has a violent past that includes an assault on a police officer, was charged with attempted murder and assault by the Manhattan District Attorney’s Office.
