A lady was pushed to her loss of life in entrance of a subway practice on the Times Square station Saturday, police mentioned, slightly greater than per week after the mayor and governor introduced plans to spice up subway policing and outreach to homeless individuals in New York Metropolis's streets and trains.
The person believed accountable fled the scene however turned himself in to transit police a short while later, Police Commissioner Keechant Sewell mentioned at a information convention with Mayor Eric Adams on the station.
The 40-year-old sufferer, a metropolis resident, was ready for a southbound R practice round 9:40 a.m. when she was apparently shoved, in line with police.
On this livestream body seize from video offered by NYPD Information, Mayor Eric Adams, foreground, with metropolis legislation officers, speaks at a information convention inside a subway station after a girl was pushed to her loss of life in entrance of a subway practice on the Times Square station, Saturday, Jan. 15, 2022, in New York. (NYPD Information through AP)
"This incident was unprovoked, and the victim does not appear to have had any interaction with the subject," Sewell mentioned.
A second lady instructed police the person had approached her minutes earlier and she or he feared he would push her onto the tracks.
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"He approaches her and he gets in her space. She gets very, very alarmed," Assistant Chief Jason Wilcox mentioned, describing the sooner encounter. "She tries to move away from him and he gets close to her, and she feels that he was about to physically push her onto the train. As she’s walking away she witnesses the crime where he pushes our other victim in front of the train."
Police on Saturday night time recognized the suspect as 61-year-old Simon Martial. Martial, who police mentioned is homeless, was charged with second-degree homicide. It was not instantly identified whether or not he had an legal professional who might remark.
Wilcox mentioned Martial has a felony historical past and has been on parole.
"He does have in the past three emotionally disturbed encounters with us that we have documented," he mentioned.
The No. 1 practice prepares to depart the South Ferry Station, Tuesday June 27, 2017, in New York.
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Subway situations and security have change into a fear for a lot of New Yorkers in the course of the pandemic. Though police statistics present main felonies within the subways have dropped over the previous two years, so has ridership, making it troublesome to check.
And a few current assaults have gotten public consideration and raised alarms. In September, three transit staff had been assaulted in separate incidents on at some point. A number of riders had been slashed and assaulted by a bunch of attackers on a practice in Decrease Manhattan in Might, and 4 separate stabbings — two of them deadly — occurred inside a number of hours on a single subway line in February.
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In current months there have been a number of cases of individuals being stabbed, assaulted or shoved onto the tracks at stations within the Bronx, Brooklyn and at Times Square.
Adams, who has been mayor for 2 weeks, has famous that a notion of hazard might drive extra individuals to eschew the subway, complicating town's financial restoration because it tries to attract individuals again to workplaces, vacationer sights and extra.
"We want to continue to highlight how imperative it is that people receive the right mental health services, particularly on our subway system," the mayor mentioned Saturday. "To lose a New Yorker in this fashion will only continue to elevate the fears of individuals not using our subway system."
"Our recovery is dependent on the public safety in this city and in the subway system," Adams mentioned.
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Below his predecessor, Invoice de Blasio, town repeatedly mentioned it was deploying extra police to subways after assaults final 12 months and stress from transit officers. The company that runs the subway system, the Metropolitan Transportation Authority, sped up work to put in safety cameras in all 472 subway stations citywide, ending that undertaking in September.
Nevertheless, town additionally has repeatedly confronted complaints in recent times about heavy-handed policing in subways. Protests erupted, for instance, after police had been seen on bystander video handcuffing a girl they mentioned was promoting churros with out a license at subway stations in 2019 and punching a Black teenager throughout a brawl on a subway platform that very same 12 months.
Six law enforcement officials had been assigned to the station Saturday, authorities mentioned.
Becoming a member of Adams final week to debate the state of the subways, Gov. Kathy Hochul mentioned she was planning to place collectively 5 groups of social employees and medical professionals to assist town information individuals residing on streets and subways to shelter, housing and providers.
Each Hochul and Adams are Democrats.
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