Erika Menendez, who was arrested Saturday night for fatally pushing a man off the subway platform to an incoming train, told police that she thought he was a Muslim.
The man has been identified as 40-year-old Sunando Sen, who was a Hindu native of India. He was running a printing company in Queens.
Menendez, 32, told the NYPD, "I pushed a Muslim off the train tracks because I hate Hindus and Muslims ever since 2001 when they put down the twin towers I've been beating them up," as reported by The Associated Press.
New York Judge Gia Morris has ordered the alleged killer to be mentally evaluated and has ordered she be held without bail.
Menendez pushed Sen off the Queens bound 7-train track in Queens on Thursday. Now New York police say that incident was caught on camera. See the surveillance video here.
New York Police Department chief spokesman Paul Browne told Fox News, "It didn't appear the man noticed her before he was shoved onto the tracks, police said. The condition of the man's body was making it difficult to identify him," Browne added, "He was struck by the first of the 11-car train, with his body pinned under the front of the second car as the train came to a stop."
MTA Spokesman, Joseph Lhota, said, "If we lived in a world of completely available unlimited dollars there may be a way to prevent such incidents...I don't think this is something that can be solved by spending more money in the subway system," as reported by Bloomberg.
The 7 train which runs from Times Square, Manhattan into Queens as well as the N and Q line, were all suspended Thursday between 74th Street, Jackson Heights and Times Square. According to the MTA the service has now been restored.
Witness said that the woman was following the man and kept mumbling to herself, when she say the train pulling in, she pushed Han into the incoming train and then quickly took off from the scene.
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