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Another Person Pushed In Front of NYC Subway Train and Killed

Dec. 27, 2012 11:30pm Jason Howerton

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NEW YORK (AP) — A mumbling woman pushed a man to his death in front of a subway train on Thursday night, the second time this month someone has been killed in such nightmarish fashion, police said.

The man, who wasn’t immediately identified, was standing on the elevated platform of a 7 train in Queens at about 8 p.m. when he was shoved by the woman, who witnesses said had been following him closely and mumbling to herself, New York Police Department chief spokesman Paul Browne said. It didn’t appear the man noticed her before he was shoved onto the tracks, police said.

The woman fled, and police were searching for her. She was described as Hispanic, in her 20s, heavyset and about 5-foot-5, wearing a blue, white and gray ski jacket and Nike sneakers with gray on top and red on the bottom.

It was unclear if the man and the woman knew each other or if anyone tried to help the man up before he was struck by the train and killed.

On Dec. 3, 58-year-old Ki-Suck Han was shoved in front of a train in Times Square. A photograph of him on the tracks a split second before he was killed was published on the front of the New York Post the next day, causing an uproar and debate over whether the photographer, who had been waiting for a train, should have tried to help him and whether the newspaper should have run the image. Apparently no one else tried to help up Han, either.

A homeless man, 30-year-old Naeem Davis, was charged with murder in Han’s death and was ordered held without bail. 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.

Service was suspended Thursday night on the 7 train line, which connects Manhattan and Queens, and the Metropolitan Transportation Authority was using buses to shuttle riders while police investigated.

Being pushed onto the train tracks is a silent fear for many of the commuters who ride the city’s subway a total of more than 5.2 million times on an average weekday, but deaths are rare. Among the more high-profile cases was the January 1999 death of aspiring screenwriter Kendra Webdale, who was shoved by a former mental patient. After that, the state Legislature passed Kendra’s Law, which lets mental health authorities supervise patients who live outside institutions to make sure they are taking their medications and aren’t threats to safety.

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Blue Anchor Gun Nut
Posted on December 28, 2012 at 6:13am
More people have been killed by the NYC subway train then my assault rifles. Can anyone explain to me why anyone needs to have a high capacity train?

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- kickagrandma
  Posted on December 28, 2012 at 7:19am
  We should ban the NYC train system!!! ; )
  
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- Paool
  Posted on December 28, 2012 at 1:31pm
  ic wut u did ther :P
  
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- zenjak
  Posted on December 28, 2012 at 4:43pm
  Tonight on MSNBC: Our panel of talking heads who couldn’t find jobs elsewhere will discuss why newspapers must publish names and addresses of all people who ride these murderous subways.
  
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- charles116
  Posted on December 28, 2012 at 5:14pm
  The only question is how can we get Louie Gohmert to take the subways.
  
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- SgtB
  Posted on December 28, 2012 at 5:56pm
  Why the hell don’t they just install barriers like they have at EVERY OTHER TRAIN STATION IN THE WORLD!!! It is obvious that these idiots in NYC are not smart enough to keep back from the edge and they have crazies running about pushing people on the tracks and then masses that just watch in amazement when it is their turn to see what they see in the movies in real life. They can’t be trusted to be safe at all. So just install gates that are motorized and make them wait in line like the subway is an amusement park ride.
  
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- Balpit
  Posted on December 28, 2012 at 11:52pm
  @SGTB
  
  NYC has more important things to worry about, like the size of soda cups that can be sold.
  
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- RightSideofTRUTH
  Posted on December 29, 2012 at 1:35pm
  ban all physical contact. ban anything that can be weaponized (shoes, pencils, rope, words, gravity etc.)
  Oh and background checks for everyone.. Daily.
  
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- KeystoneState
  Posted on December 29, 2012 at 4:06pm
  Ban subways than Bloomberg you elohssA!
  
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Vtx110
Posted on December 28, 2012 at 5:49am
Mayor goonberg is responsible. He refuses to decrease the length of the trains that will reduce its potential to murder.

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- Thighmaster
  Posted on December 28, 2012 at 6:33am
  I’ve noticed it’s almost always the front half of the train that kills so if we eliminate the front half of trains these people would not be killed. This should make perfect sense to those dumbasses wanting to ban guns.
  
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- zman173rd
  Posted on December 28, 2012 at 8:35am
  how about if the trains come to a complete stop BEFORE entering each terminal? Then they can have a conductor get out and scan the tracks before proceding into the terminal. Also add an addtional camera to the terminal on each end and then terminal “overseers” to contact the Conductor to verfiy no one in on the tracks. Sounds like the three letter word: J-O-B-S ! They would have to hire additional people for the trains, what a breakthrough. maybe that’s what all this is about anyway. And hey if we hire the loonies in those positions it’ll keep them to busy to push anyone.
  
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- Trigus
  Posted on December 28, 2012 at 8:45am
  Another senseless act of violence. We either need to slow the subway train down to 3 mph (at all times) or do away with the subway train to prevent further deaths.
  
  Last year alone in NY City: 146 people where hit by a subway train and 47 people where killed. I see a serious problem here. Old Bloomy something must be done about subway trains.
  
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- RJJinGadsden
  Posted on December 28, 2012 at 8:45am
  Gee, what is that saying started by a program with New York’s Metropolitan Transportation Authority (MTA)? C’mon, you guys know, the one that was even borrowed with permission by Homeland Security? That saying that is so similar to the one under the Bush Admin that was so pooh-poohed by the left, especially the media? Oh yeah…..”If you see something, say something!” Oh yeah, didn’t this last incident occur yet again within the scope of the New York Metropolitan Transportation Authority? As Jim Morrison used to sing, People Are Strange. If you spot these deranged people acting oddly in areas where they can be dangerous it is best to report them. Attention directed towards them by the authorities and the time to have a short conversation will let even the craziest know that somebody is paying attention.
  Again, what is the single common thread amongst our most recent murderers? Mental illness apparently. At least there has yet to be a knee jerk reaction by ENCINOM to ban trains or even subway platforms.
  
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- SpankDaMonkey
  Posted on December 28, 2012 at 8:49am
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  Time to ban Crazy………..
  
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- termyt
  Posted on December 28, 2012 at 8:51am
  This is not a hard thing to fix. I’ve been in several airports with subway systems. In every one, it is impossible to push someone onto the tracks. Between commuters and trains is a wall with doors. The doors open once the train is in the station.
  
  Is the idea of a wall so revolutionary, no one’s thought of it before? I got a bunch of them in my house and most of them have doors, so I’m pretty sure the technology is sound.
  
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- SocialistSlayer
  Posted on December 28, 2012 at 8:53am
  Subway Trains are dangerous – They should be outlawed and Regulated – Remember People don’t kill – Trains do ! Come on Commie-Crats – protect us from the Evil Trains !
  
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- BSdetector
  Posted on December 28, 2012 at 9:21am
  We must immediately ban the sale, possession, and use of Assault Trains immediately! Who needs a train that moves faster than 3mph?? NO ONE!!! These trains serve no purpose except for killing people and you have no right to ride one!
  
  FOR THE CHILDREN!!@#$@ ZOMG
  
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- Wojciech W.
  Posted on December 28, 2012 at 10:11am
  Good, New Yorkers killin each other … No? This is bad? well … then … we must .. uh .. BAN TRAINS, and CARS, and WALKING, and BREATHING … whats next Bloomberg-o-Pal? Whach u gonnah ban next my nig? No SLANG? Aww shucks, gee Mr Mayor, can we go out side and play? is MARTIAL LAW still going on?
  
  NY sucks.
  
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SGT Rock
Posted on December 28, 2012 at 2:47am
We need some legisltion on these trains. Ban any thrin that has cars that cn carry over 10 people, sue the train manufacterer, sue the munipality for not safe guarding the patrons. Lets not hold the physco reponsibe though. Just going along with the left and the media hype.

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- Skeeterhawk
  Posted on December 28, 2012 at 6:23am
  Don’t forget to add banning electricity so the train cannot move ;)
  
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marine249
Posted on December 28, 2012 at 2:08am
I repete my post from the from the last story.
there are a lot of sick people out there.

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- WATER-THE-TREE
  Posted on December 28, 2012 at 2:28am
  They could put some rails up, and then publicly execute people who senselessly murder other people.
  
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Saving_the_Republic.com
Posted on December 28, 2012 at 1:57am
Ban subway trains, they are assault trains! I’m NOT trying to be funny either I’m just using the logic of the left when tragedy strikes.

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- donkeykong
  Posted on December 28, 2012 at 3:40am
  And, they must be limited to no more than 3 MPH…
  
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- FidgetforFreedom
  Posted on December 28, 2012 at 1:01pm
  Please donate to the National Train Association, help them fight this assault on the right to ride trains. On a serious note though, God bless this man and his family.
  
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lassiegirldawn
Posted on December 28, 2012 at 1:45am
That is it, I call for a ban on all subway trains. They need to put them in locked garages, this is the second death in two or three weeks. We need all subway train drivers to have their license to drive subway trains immediately suspended.

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- Salamander
  Posted on December 28, 2012 at 2:11am
  I know, but don’t lockup the crazy woman. After all, she can’t help it! Poor woman!
  
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- Dr Vel
  Posted on December 28, 2012 at 5:46am
  Yes, and everyone owning a train needs to be photographed, fingerprinted, pass a background check, and must be authorized by the United Nations to own a train. They should be on a national registry with interactive websites showing their home address. Anyone caught with a train in a ‘train free zone’ should be locked up for the maximum amount of time. No person shall have a train capable of pulling more than ten cars.
  
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- randy
  Posted on December 28, 2012 at 9:22am
  And I wonder just how many children received lionel assault trains for Christmas this year.
  It’s long overdue for toy trains to be banned in order to stop filling children’s minds with
  mayhem and murder. People don’t kill people, trains do!
  
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rebelwuf
Posted on December 28, 2012 at 1:28am
OMG this is horrible. Mayor Bloomberg needs to ban these assault trains. If people didn’t have access to these high speed, multi-car, and detachable car trains this would never happen.

But seriously, prayers for the man’s family.

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- Thighmaster
  Posted on December 28, 2012 at 6:47am
  In Bloomberg’s defense there are rumors that the woman was high on a 32 oz slurpie which could have caused this killing spree…
  
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SageInWaiting
Posted on December 28, 2012 at 1:24am
We need stronger laws, limiting access to subway trains and train tickets; we must limit the capacity of train cars. Subway trains MUST be registered and, if necessary, confiscated, for a safer, less violent society.

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DZ-015
Posted on December 28, 2012 at 1:09am
They need cowcatchers with airbags on the front of each train.

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- DEFCON4
  Posted on December 28, 2012 at 2:15am
  Speaking of “which” http://youtu.be/2Jx2jEPvh88……
  “Hooterville and uncle ‘joe’ included…….
  
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sirocco78
Posted on December 28, 2012 at 1:00am
the people who commit these acts are possessed.

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RightInSoManyWays
Posted on December 28, 2012 at 12:59am
I’m on board with ban New York!

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HotFixIt
Posted on December 28, 2012 at 12:57am
Who needs guns when you have subways?! Where there is a will, there is a way.

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Diane TX
Posted on December 28, 2012 at 12:56am
NYC needs to regulate subway platforms, starting with mandatory distances of 6 feet between each person on the platforms. Only infants and small children are exempt. Jobs will be created for “platform monitors”, that will have arrest powers if the 6 foot distance isn’t maintain.

I sure that Mayor Bloomberg will jump at the chance to enact these new regulations.

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- starman70
  Posted on December 28, 2012 at 8:43am
  Such a program is not beyond the scope of the NYC Transit Authority. The reason passengers crowd the platforms is they hope to be the first on board in order to clain any vacant seat available.
  
  Chain link fences with gates which automatically open after the train comes to a complete stop and will allow passengers to exit through one way rotating gates (Out) and allow boarding the trains with the same gate assembly (In) could be installed 5 to 6 feet from the edge of the platform.
  
  Theme parks already have such passenger controls on steam trains and other rides in their parks in order to keep patrons from getting injured.
  
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HoratiusAtTheBridge
Posted on December 28, 2012 at 12:45am
Maybe I’m just a high-school graduate moron, but can’t they – OH I DON’T EFFING KNOW – install 7 or 8 foot plexiglass BARRIERS along these platforms with sliding panels where the train doors end-up? Then no one gets pushed or trips, etc – and it’d be harder for anyone to suicide this way.

As Will Smith said in the first Men in Black movie, when he looked about at the whiskey-tango decor in that lady’s home: “Dayyyy-um.”

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- tckid17
  Posted on December 28, 2012 at 10:58am
  I like your idea, it makes more sense than hiring more people.
  
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Apple Bite
Posted on December 28, 2012 at 12:29am
Can’t ban the subways until Doomberg bans your kids favorite sugary cereal first…..
Priorities, people.

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GoodStuff
Posted on December 28, 2012 at 12:24am
Can we ban New York?

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garbagecanlogic
Posted on December 28, 2012 at 12:15am
Either ban subway trains, or people pushers. Or maybe both. What say you bloomers and touray.

Praise Be To Obama. Psalm 109:8

The U.S. Out Of The U.N.
The U.N. Out Of The U.S.

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dissentnow
Posted on December 28, 2012 at 12:01am
Is Toure’ going to demand that the names and addresses of all patients who live outside institutions be published in newspapers?

Oh, wait…….the murderer was described as being “Hispanic”……..nevermind……nothing to see here…….move along………

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LeadNotFollow
Posted on December 27, 2012 at 11:57pm
You couldn’t pay me to visit New York.
I don’t care to be near Godless Heathens.

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GMAN455
Posted on December 27, 2012 at 11:52pm
Mayor Bloomberg Gives Homeless One-Way Tickets Out Of NYC have to make another ticket sounds like lol http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nd8RryvuCm8

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GuruMeditation
Posted on December 27, 2012 at 11:49pm
Time to ban the subways.

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- LeadNotFollow
  Posted on December 27, 2012 at 11:59pm
  It was “hands” that did the pushing.
  We must ban hands.
  
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- GuruMeditation
  Posted on December 28, 2012 at 12:04pm
  But the subway train did the killing.
  
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MrButcher
Posted on December 27, 2012 at 11:40pm
The negative international stereotype of America is that we are the land of violent ignorant, insane idiots.

We are proving them right on a daily basis.

But, hey, what can ya do?

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civilwarcometh
Posted on December 27, 2012 at 11:37pm
She was described as Hispanic. More likely illigel……..

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- GuruMeditation
  Posted on December 28, 2012 at 12:05pm
  What kind of gel?
  
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J.C. McGlynn
Posted on December 27, 2012 at 11:36pm
More people have been killed in New york by homeless people and subway cars then by NRA members.
Does this mean Gov. Coumo And Mayor Bloomburg will ban the homeless and subway cars?

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dosdelgados
Posted on December 27, 2012 at 11:36pm
Ban subways.

Or just ban New York.

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- GuruMeditation
  Posted on December 27, 2012 at 11:49pm
  Both.
  
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- SPIN_MD
  Posted on December 28, 2012 at 11:39am
  I like John Carpenter’s idea about New York. Just put a fence around it. The criminals are already there.
  
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