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New York: man pushes woman in front of subway

2022-01-16T16:00:09.634Z


A 61-year-old with a criminal past is said to be the perpetrator: in New York, a woman was pushed in front of a subway and died. The suspect was charged with homicide.


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New York Mayor Eric Adams at a press conference after the crime

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A woman was pushed in front of the subway in New York and killed.

The suspect fled the scene but turned himself in to police shortly thereafter, Police Chief Keechant Sewell said at a press conference with Mayor Eric Adams.

A 40-year-old woman from New York was just waiting for the train when she was apparently attacked for no reason.

"There appears to have been no interaction between the victim and the suspect," Sewell said.

Suspect with a criminal past

Minutes earlier, the man is said to have approached another woman in such a way that she feared being pushed onto the tracks.

She then went away and witnessed the crime, police said.

The suspect is said to be a 61-year-old homeless man with a criminal past.

The man was currently on probation.

He was charged with a homicide.

The background to the crime is still unclear. Investigators said it was also investigating whether it was a hate crime. The victim was of Asian descent. According to figures published by the FBI law enforcement agency last August, hate crimes against people of Asian origin in particular have increased massively since the outbreak of the corona crisis. However, police pointed out that the first woman the suspect allegedly approached was not Asian.

The safety situation in the subways worries many New Yorkers.

While statistics show that serious crime on trains has decreased over the past two years, passenger numbers have also fallen, making comparison difficult.

Several attacks, some of them deadly, have attracted attention in the recent past.

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Source: spiegel

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