Crime Newsday > Long Island
Originally published: December 29, 2012 12:51 PM
Updated: December 29, 2012 11:36 PM
By KEVIN DEUTSCH AND ANTHONY M. DESTEFANO [email protected],[email protected]
Photo credit: Danielle Finkelstein | Erika Menendez, center, was charged with second-degree murder as a hate crime in the subway-pushing death of Sunando Sen who was killed after he was pushed off a subway platform into the path of an incoming train. (Dec. 29, 2012)
A woman was charged with second-degree murder as a hate crime Saturday for pushing an Indian immigrant off a subway platform to his death, prosecutors said.
The accused, Erika Menendez, 31, told detectives she attacked Sunando Sen, 46, because she has hated Muslims and Hindus since 9/11, according to Queens District Attorney Richard Brown. Sen, born in Calcutta, India, was a practicing Hindu,...
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Originally published: December 29, 2012 12:51 PM
Updated: December 29, 2012 11:36 PM
By KEVIN DEUTSCH AND ANTHONY M. DESTEFANO [email protected],[email protected]
Photo credit: Danielle Finkelstein | Erika Menendez, center, was charged with second-degree murder as a hate crime in the subway-pushing death of Sunando Sen who was killed after he was pushed off a subway platform into the path of an incoming train. (Dec. 29, 2012)
A woman was charged with second-degree murder as a hate crime Saturday for pushing an Indian immigrant off a subway platform to his death, prosecutors said.
The accused, Erika Menendez, 31, told detectives she attacked Sunando Sen, 46, because she has hated Muslims and Hindus since 9/11, according to Queens District Attorney Richard Brown. Sen, born in Calcutta, India, was a practicing Hindu,...
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