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Judge: No bail for NYC subway-push suspect Erika Menendez

The NYPD says surveillance video shows two men

The NYPD says surveillance video shows two men on a subway platform before Ki-Suk Han, 58, left, was pushed onto the tracks and fatally struck by a train. Handout (Dec. 3, 2012) (December 3, 2012 11:28 PM)

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, of Rego Park, told detectives she attacked Sunando Sen, 46, because she "thought it would be cool" and because of long-standing prejudice against "Muslims, Hindus and Egyptians," whom she blamed for the...

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