NEW YORK (AP) — A woman who pushed a commuter to her death in front of a New York City subway train just days after being released from a psychiatric facility was sentenced Friday to 20 years to life in prison. He called the case a “tragedy, no matter how you look at it.”“A woman lost her life and Ms. Liverpool took responsibility,” Wallenstein said. When officers asked her what happened, prosecutors said, Liverpool told them she had pushed a person onto the tracks. The authorities said that Liverpool, before being admitted to the psychiatric ward, falsely claimed to have pushed another woman to her death in front of an oncoming train at Union Square station. Police deemed that woman’s death a suicide, but prosecutors argued in court papers that Liverpool’s false claim demonstrated “a motive or reason to commit this otherwise senseless and purposeless crime.”

Source: Huffington Post April 07, 2019 15:56 UTC