A Hispanic woman in her 20's in New York was mumbling to herself as she followed a man onto a subway platform in Queens, New York. As the train was approaching, she pushed him onto the tracks, killing him before fleeing the train station, according to reports.
The incident marks the second fatal subway shove in the city this month. The victim was 46-year-old Sunando Sen, who was from India and lived in Queens.
Sen had his back to her when she suddenly got up from a nearby bench and shoved him just as the subway train pulled up to the platform, reports Fox News. The event took place on Thursday night in Queens.
The woman was described as witnesses as Hispanic, in her 20s, heavy, wearing a blue, white and gray ski jacket and Nike sneakers.
Some witnesses said Sen had been shielding himself from the cold by waiting in a stairwell before he ventured out onto the platform to see if the train was coming. They also said he had no interaction with the woman, who immediately darted down a stairway after she pushed him.
A surveillance video, from a nearby intersection, shows a woman dashing from a crosswalk and running down a sidewalk.
"It's a very tragic case, but what we want to focus on today is the overall safety in New York," Bloomberg told reporters following a police academy graduation.
There are no barriers separating the trains from the people on the city's subway platforms, and many people fall or jump to their deaths in front of rushing trains each year.
Earlier this month, 58-year-old Ki-Suck Han was tragically pushed in front of a train in Times Square by a homeless man, 30-year-old Naeem Davis who has been charged with murder. He has pleaded not guilty and has said that Han was the aggressor and had attacked him first. The two men hadn't met before.
Unfortunately, no other passengers helped Han out of the train tracks and one New York Post photographer captured a griping photo of Han trying to get himself out of the tracks. The Post photograph was accompanied by the two headlines "Pushed on the subway track, this man is about to die," and "Doomed." It received widespread criticism as critics wondered why the photographer, R. Umar Abbasi, didn't help Han instead.
