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Woman killed after being pushed in front of New York subway train

A woman has been charged with murder after another woman was crushed to death when she was pushed in front of a moving subway train in New York.

Melanie Liverpool-Turner, 30, was seen arguing with Connie Watton, 49, at the stop under Times Square.

The pair did not know one another, according to police, and Ms Watton died at the scene.

Liverpool-Turner of Queens, was arrested within minutes and taken into police custody. Witnesses described how she looked ‘proud’ as she was led away by police officers.

According to the New York Post, Liverpool-Turner told authorities that she did the same thing at Union Square station last month.

However, officers do not believe her account as a German student who died there around that time is thought to have taken her own life.

Witnesses said they saw that 19-year-old jump.

Liverpool-Turner’s boyfriend, Olief Wilson, said that she was on her way to go shopping in Brooklyn when the incident happened.

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Authorities have described the suspect as emotionally disturbed.

Police were looking at video surveillance to determine what led to the attack, Manhattan Chief of Detectives William Aubry said.

Subway deaths from pushes are not common, but there have been a few in the past few years. In 2014, Kevin Darden, 34, was charged with killing a 61-year-old immigrant from Hong Kong, Wai Kuen Kwok, by shoving him into the path of a subway train in the Bronx. He pleaded guilty to manslaughter and is awaiting sentencing.

In 2012, Erika Menendez, a mentally ill woman who had a history of attacking strangers, shoved an immigrant from India off a subway platform in Queens. She pleaded guilty to manslaughter and was sentenced to 24 years in prison. The victim, Sunando Sen, was 46.

Also in 2012, a homeless man, Naeem Davis, was arrested and charged with shoving Ki-Suck Han, a Korean immigrant, into the path of a subway train at a station near Times Square.

A fatal subway push in 1999 led to a state law, known as Kendra’s Law, that allows supervision of certain patients outside of institutions to make sure they’re taking medications and don’t present a public safety threat. It came after the death of Kendra Webdale, who was pushed to her death by a former mental patient.

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