Brenddy Garcia, who fatally stabbed two men on a 2 train in March, was freed from Rikers Island yesterday. On Friday, a grand jury believed that he acted in self-defense and did not indict him for murder. The Post caught the 19-year-old "relish[ing] his first seconds outside of prison, beaming a big smile and deeply breathing in the fresh air," and Garcia sarcastically said to the reporter, "I’m a monster, right?"
Garcia was referring to how he was initially painted as the aggressor in the early morning confrontation (and the machete picture probably didn't help either). Witnesses confirmed that Garcia was being attacked by a group of people on the subway when he used a folding knife with a four-inch blade to stab Ricardo Williams and Darnell Morel. Garcia's lawyer said, "He got jumped and had no other choice than to do what he did."
The Post spied what looked like a party at his family's home in Brooklyn. While Garcia's family did not comment, one person heading in said, "Justice has been served." And speaking of subway violence, a 20-year-old man was stabbed, possibly by a group of men, in the neck, arm and stomach last night at 9 p.m. on a J train.
