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Woman charged with murder in N.Y. subway shove death

Updated Saturday, Dec. 29, 2012 | 3:18 p.m.

NEW YORK — A woman accused of pushing a man to his death in front of a subway train was charged Saturday with murder as a hate crime. Police arrested Erika Menendez on Saturday after a passer-by on a street noticed she resembled the woman seen in a surveillance video. A spokeswoman for Queens District Attorney Richard A. Brown said Menendez told authorities she hates Hindus and Muslims. Subway shoving victim Sunando Sen was from India, but it's unclear if he was Muslim or Hindu. Sen, who lived in Queens and ran a printing shop, was killed Thursday night. Witnesses ...

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  1. By Seriously
    Dec. 30, 2012
    6:13 a.m.
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    Uh oh!! Two murders from being pushed in front of subway trains? We had better ban subway trains now!

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