COLLEEN LONG,Associated Press
NEW YORK (AP) — Prosecutors say a woman accused of pushing a man to his death in front of a New York subway train has been charged with murder as a hate crime.
Police arrested Erika Menendez on Saturday after a passerby on a street noticed she resembled the woman seen in a surveillance video.
A spokeswoman for Queens District Attorney Richard A. Brown says Menendez told authorities she hates Hindus and Muslims.
Subway shoving victim Sunando Sen was from India, but it’s unclear if he was Muslim or Hindu.
Sen was killed Thursday. Witnesses say a muttering woman pushed him on the tracks as a train entered a Queens station and then ran off.
Menendez is in custody and can’t be reached for comment. It’s unclear if she has an attorney.
Copyright 2012 The Associated Press.
thats great
So another sense-less attack on unsuspecting people by a crazy nut job. Grrrreat. No need for better mental health care. No need for the asylums to be brought back to house these deranged people. Just big government and more and more laws that do absolutely nothing.
The most sued PD in all the world maybe got one right.. Congrats? Let me know when “Stop & Frisk” makes your headlines.
How about stop and let’s see proof you are here legally.
maybe we should ban subways!
She did it because she thought he was a Muslim and he was actually a Hindi. IT MAKES ME SO SICK OF THIS TYPE OF HATE!!!
It’s more a crime than hate, to me. Regardless of her reasons, she decided it was a good idea to push a man to his senseless death. That’s wrong whatever your motivation.
…as opposed to those crimes where you murder someone out of love. O.J.?
Even if he was Muslim… Does it make a difference? this woman was crazed with the hate and fear that the media hopes instill in people.