Man Killed After Being Pushed in Front of NYC Subway Train
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Medioimages/Photodisc/Thinkstock(NEW YORK) — Detectives in New York are searching for a female suspect who fled a subway station after a man was fatally pushed in front of a train on an elevated platform in Queens, N.Y.
At 8:04 p.m. on Thursday, an unnamed male passenger was standing on the northbound platform of the 40th Street and Queens Blvd. station in Queens, waiting for the 7 train. Witnesses told police that a woman was walking back and forth on the platform and talking to herself before she took a seat on a wooden bench on the platform.
As the 7 train approached the station, witnesses said the woman rose from the bench and pushed the man, who was standing with his back to her.
Witnesses told police that the victim did not notice the woman behind him. He was struck by the first of the 11-car train, with his body pinned under the front of the second car as the train came to a stop, according to a statement from Deputy Commissioner Paul Brown.
After pushing the man onto the platform, the woman then fled down two separate staircases to Queens Blvd. She was described as wearing a blue, white and grey ski jacket, and grey and red Nike sneakers.
It is unclear if the two knew each other, or whether anyone on the platform attempted to help the man off the platform before he was struck by the train.
Overnight, the NYPD released surveillance video of the woman believed to be the suspect. Detectives were also canvassing locations along Queens Blvd. for other witnesses and surveillance video.
Thursday’s death marks the second incident in New York this month of a man being killed after being pushed onto subway tracks and killed by an oncoming train.
On Dec. 3, Ki-Suck Han, 58, was tossed onto the subway track at 49th Street and Seventh Avenue around 12:30 p.m. after an altercation with a man who was later identified as 30-year-old Naeem Davis. Davis has been charged with murder in Han’s death and was ordered held without bail.
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