NY - Connie Watton, 49, fatally shoved in front of NYC subway, 7 Nov 2016

[CARIIS]

http://patch.com/new-york/midtown-nyc/1-line-delayed-due-unauthorized-person-tracks-mta

 

[zencompass]

That is so horrid. I'm glad that they have the suspect but I can't imagine someone ever doing something so horrible.

Sending prayers to the family and loved ones of the victim.

 

[Pamela_Brewer]

Oh my! Thank goodness they have him in custody!

 

[CARIIS]

[FONT=&amp]he victim was hit and pinned under a train.http://www.fox5ny.com/news/216025491-story[/FONT]

Does anyone know if the 4 delays here are related to this?
http://www.mta.info/

swarms of firetrucks and ambulances surrounded the station, and police closed off the tracks.

http://patch.com/new-york/midtown-nyc/1-line-delayed-due-unauthorized-person-tracks-mta

There was a presser by this william aubry but cant find it

 

[CARIIS]

Oh my! Thank goodness they have him in custody!

It was two woman.

"About 5 minutes ago 20 police officers escorted her out," the Post quoted a witness. "She was… in mid twenties, her head was up — kinda proud of what she did."

http://patch.com/new-york/midtown-nyc/1-line-delayed-due-unauthorized-person-tracks-mta

 

[CARIIS]

Per local news at 4pm she is still under the train


History of schizophrenia

 

[dotr]

http://www.reuters.com/article/us-new-york-subway-idUSKBN1322HH

The victim was standing on the platform when the suspect, wearing a pink shirt and scarf, lunged at her, police said.

Two hours after the incident, emergency responders were working to remove the woman's body from the tracks and resume subway service at the station before peak evening commuting hours.
Investigators were reviewing surveillance video and interviewing witnesses to determine a motive, said William Aubry, the police department's chief of Manhattan detectives.
Many of those who saw the attack were visibly shaken. Some witnesses said the victim and the suspect were involved in a dispute before the fatal shove, Aubry said, but it was not immediately clear whether the women knew each other.

 

[Maroon10]

The victim was standing on the platform when the suspect, wearing a pink shirt and scarf, lunged at her, police said.

Two hours after the incident, emergency responders were working to remove the woman's body from the tracks and resume subway service at the station before peak evening commuting hours.
Investigators were reviewing surveillance video and interviewing witnesses to determine a motive, said William Aubry, the police department's chief of Manhattan detectives.
Many of those who saw the attack were visibly shaken. Some witnesses said the victim and the suspect were involved in a dispute before the fatal shove, Aubry said, but it was not immediately clear whether the women knew each other.

This is such senseless violence. I hope justice is served

BBM, as someone who grew up taking trains and buses in a busy city to school and work, you will encounter crazy or just horrible people on the mass transit system, if you argue or have to stand near someone a little off hinged, dont stand right in front of the tracks. There usually is 20-30 feet of pathway for passengers to stand.

 

[dotr]

http://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/person-dies-shoved-front-times-square-subway-article-1.2862901

NYPD officers arrest a woman after a commuter was pushed in front of a subway train as it arrived at a Times Square train platform on Monday.

(STRINGER/REUTERS)

Police sources said it does not appear that the two women knew each other.

They said she has a documented mental health history.
Police are trying to determine if the suspect had anything to do with an Oct. 19 subway track death at the Union Square station that had been ruled a suicide.

rbbm.

 

[Pamela_Brewer]

It was two woman.

"About 5 minutes ago 20 police officers escorted her out," the Post quoted a witness. "She was… in mid twenties, her head was up — kinda proud of what she did."

http://patch.com/new-york/midtown-nyc/1-line-delayed-due-unauthorized-person-tracks-mta

Strange, my first thought was this sounds like something an angry woman would do.
MOO

 

[Inthedetails]

The perp lied about a previous subway-pushing incident:

"In a bizarre twist, Liverpool-Turner lied to police last month about pushing a different woman in front of a train at the Union Square station, police sources said.

She falsely claimed on Oct. 19 she was responsible for the death of a German college student who was struck by a train, police sources said.

But cops soon learned Liverpool-Turner — who police sources said has a history of bipolar disorder and schizophrenia — made up the story.

The 19-year-old student had been struggling with depression over a recent breakup and had actually committed suicide, police said."

http://nypost.com/2016/11/07/suspect-in-fatal-subway-push-lied-about-prior-platform-death/

 

[CARIIS]

Melanie Liverpool-Turner, 30, pushed Connie Watton, 49, onto the tracks as they stood on the downtown No. 1 train platform

had been arguing with Connie Watton, 49, at the Times Square-42nd Street station on Monday. The two did not know each other, police said.

Liverpool-Turner underwent a psychiatric exam at Bellevue Hospital

suspect's boyfriend, Olief Wilson, said Liverpool-Turner was taking to train to go shopping in Brooklyn.

Two other women may have been involved in the incident, witnesses told the New York Post.

three dozen police and other emergency officials responded

Dozens of people are hit by New York City subway trains each year, although most of the incidents are accidental, according to the Metropolitan Transportation Authority, which operates the system.

Ten subway lines converge on the station, as well as the shuttle to Grand Central Station.







Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/art...imes-Square-subway-station.html#ixzz4PNoLBc60
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[dotr]

http://cnews.canoe.com/CNEWS/World/2016/11/08/22681060.html

Woman in NYC subway push: I’m not guilty and didn’t admit it

NEW YORK — A former home health aide rolled her eyes and insisted she wasn’t guilty as she was charged Tuesday with shoving a woman onto the subway tracks under Times Square, killing her.
Prosecutors said Melanie Liverpool had confessed to killing 49-year-old Connie Watton, of Queens, but she rebuffed the claim at her arraignment on a murder charge.
“What? I didn’t admit to nothing,” Liverpool said before the judge reminded her she had a lawyer to speak for her.

Watton worked for decades as a housekeeper for billionaire Blackstone Group CEO Stephen Schwarzman, his daughter told the New York Post.

“My whole family is really said and shocked,” said Zibby Schwarzman. “It’s horrifying.”
Watton, who was from the Philippines, “was part of every holiday,” the daughter added. “She was just a part of every piece of life since I was nine years old.”

 

[dotr]

http://nypost.com/2016/11/08/woman-pushed-to-her-death-in-subway-was-a-wife-and-chef/

Connie Watton and her husband

The woman fatally pushed to her death at the Times Square subway station was a married chef who “loved” working in the Big Apple, her brother-in-law said Tuesday.

“Obviously, this is terrible,” the relative said about the senseless attack on Connie Watton, 49, allegedly at the hands of schizophrenic Melanie Liverpool, 30.
“Out of a million people, this had to happen to her? She was honestly the most caring, loving, honest person I ever met. She would never hurt anybody. She never feared the city,” said the brother-in-law, who declined to give his name.
The relative said Watton’s husband was completely distraught.

 

[CARIIS]

https://www.pressreader.com/usa/new-york-post/.../282235190230105














... Watton didn't have a chance to survive because the train struck her “mid-fall,” according to a witness who saw the fatal push.

the housekeeper for billionaire Blackstone Group CEO Stephen Schwarzman’s family, his heartbroken daughter told The Post on Tuesday.

Connie Watton, 49 — who was pushed to the tracks by a schizophrenic woman in an unprovoked attack Monday — worked for the business mogul and his family for 30 years, Watton was an honorary family member

Watton, who emigrated from the Philippines at age 18, was a skilled cook who worked at the Schwarzman home at 635 Park Ave.After Schwarzman’s parents divorced in 1990, Watton continued to work for her mom and stepfather.....

The couple even served as Watton’s stand-in parents at her second wedding, Schwarzman said.

“She was sad because her own family couldn’t be there, so my mom and stepdad gave her away at her wedding in New Jersey,”

Watton also took care of Schwarzman during a taxing pregnancy, cooking her meals while she was bedridden,

Stephen Schwarzman’s son, Teddy Schwarzman, took to Facebook

“One of the best people in the world, Connie Watton, was murdered yesterday,” he wrote. “She had one job for her entire short life — working in my family’s home as a housekeeper, friend and surrogate mother for the past thirty years.”
“I never saw her hit the ground. The train hit her instantaneously,” said Peter .

https://www.pressreader.com/

 

[CARIIS]

No follow up!

 

[dotr]

http://www.nydailynews.com/new-york...tforms-halt-train-tragedies-article-1.2873375

[h=1]Put glass doors on MTA platforms to halt further train tragedies[/h]

[h=2]A man waits for a subway train in Seoul at a station with automated doors on the platform.[/h]

(© Lee Jae Won / Reuters/REUTERS)
Platform screen doors are glass walls between you and the dangerous tracks in the open pit. When a train enters the station, it lines up with the glass doors, which open to let the passengers in and out.

[h=2]Front page of the New York Daily News for November 9, 2016: THEY LET HER KILL[/h] (New York Daily News)

No more speeding trains inches from you without protection. No more deaths and injuries.
This would prevent not just the random attack by a crazy person, but the alarming number of deaths and injuries caused when people slip, jump or are pushed in front of subway trains.

 

[GeeEm]

No follow up!

O/T: WHY DOES IT SAY FORMER MEMBER under your name???????????? Where you at???????

 

[ninij9]

O/T: WHY DOES IT SAY FORMER MEMBER under your name???????????? Where you at???????

Don't scare me
CARIIS, ARE YOU THERE?????

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[truth_is_cool]

Is anyone else following the weird elements between Witton's employer (ruthless, super rich) and the fact that
the accused has/has a fancy lawyer (with NY shady business and mob connections), rather than a public defender?

twitter thread here (though bear with me, since this vbulletin formatting is the PITS for links and embeds and stuff)

https://twitter.com/atleecs/status/863398853525073922