USA: A man pushed a woman to her death in front of a subway in New York
The suspect was identified by another woman who said he tried to push her, and turned himself in to police after initially fleeing the scene.
The incident may increase residents' concern about safety on the subway, which plummeted in the two years of the epidemic
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16/01/2022
Sunday, 16 January 2022, 08:39 Updated: 08:43
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A woman was pushed to her death in front of a subway in New York - the police in the city said last night (Saturday). The suspect in the act, which happened at Times Square station yesterday morning, fled the scene, but he turned himself in shortly after. Police said there was no known prior acquaintance between the suspect and the woman, 40, and he pushed her for no reason while waiting for the train.
Another woman told police that the suspect had approached her a few minutes earlier, and she feared he would push her onto the train tracks. After moving away from the same man who approached her, she witnessed the second woman pushing. Police said the suspect has a criminal record and is on parole. The charges against him are still unknown.
Safety conditions on the city's subway have become a source of great concern among residents during the Corona epidemic. Although official figures show that there has been a decline in the number of serious crimes on the subway in the last two years, the number of passengers has also fallen, so it is difficult to compare.
Several passengers were cut off and attacked by a group of train attackers in Manhattan in May, and four people were stabbed within hours on one train line in February, and two of them died of their wounds.
New York City Mayor Eric Adams noted that the sense of danger on the subway could lead more residents to give it up, thus complicating the city's efforts to recover economically from the plague.
Among other things, the authorities are trying to encourage residents to return to offices and attract tourists by traveling on the subway.
"Our recovery depends on public safety in the city and on the subway," Adams said yesterday following the incident.
His predecessor in office, Bill de Bellasio, promised to deploy more police officers on the subway following a string of incidents last year and pressure from train officials.
The New York Railway Authority completed the installation of security cameras at all 472 subway stations in the city in September.
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