a 31-year-old woman is in jail this
morning police say she is the person who
pushed a man into the path of an
oncoming subway train killing him even
more shocking according to the Queen's
district attorney she told police and we
quote I pushed a Muslim off the train
tracks because I hate Hindus and Muslims
ever since
2001 eyewitness news reporter Darla
miles has details from the courthouse in
cardens
Queens screaming upon sight of all of
the cameras FOC fused solely on her
31-year-old Erica Menendez walked out of
the 112 Precinct in Forest Hill Saturday
night charged with second degree murder
as a hate crime police say she's the
woman in this surveillance video seen
running from the 40th Street Lowry
station in Sunnyside Queens after
allegedly pushing an unsuspecting strap
hanger 46-year-old sunando sen to his
dad she's been mentally ill for a long
time she was always in the hospital says
Pedro Mendes a family friend Witnesses
told police they saw Menendez talking to
herself just moments before allegedly
shoving sin in front of a moving number
seven train Thursday evening Mendes says
I she's had problems with people and
fighting I asked what kind of problems
he said fights fights fights physical
fights I asked he said yes with who
strangers in the street I asked yes in
the streets and also in the hospital
police say a pass her by spotted Mendez
in Brooklyn and called 911 Saturday
morning investigators say the
31-year-old confessed to officers when
they arrived saying quote 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 I don't think that
you know she should do any person should
go out and just randomly you just start
targeting groups and trying to kill
somebody you
know it's very sad Saturday night two
candles and a bouquet of roses had been
placed at the subway station where the
low-key Indian immigrant lost his life
and where some commuters are still
shaken by the thought of it all worry
about walking on the street because you
never know who's going to push you onto
the tracks or into the street is like
yeah very threatening yeah and the
council for American Islamic relations
released a statement Saturday evening
urging us leaders to step up their
condemnation of anti-muslim attacks in Q
Gardens Darla miles Channel 7 and
eyewitnessing is