NEW YORK (AP) — A woman who admitted to shoving a Hindu man off a New York City subway platform to his death in an attack motivated by religious animus has been sentenced to 24 years in prison.
Erika Menendez was sentenced Wednesday after pleading guilty to manslaughter for killing Sunando Sen in December 2012 in Queens.
According to the complaint, the 33-year-old Queens woman was seen talking to herself and pacing back and forth on a No. 7 train platform.
As the train entered the station, the complaint says Menendez approached Sen from behind and shoved him onto the tracks. Sen was struck by the train and died of multiple blunt force trauma.
Menendez told police she did it because she has hated Muslims and Hindus since the Sept. 11, 2001, terror attacks.
Queens District Attorney Richard Brown called the killing “every subway commuter’s worst nightmare.”
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How does she get charged with manslaughter and not outright murder?
Was charged with murder. Manslaughter was a plea bargain. Prosecutor may have thought it was a good tradeoff, or may have worried about Menendez being able to avoid a murder conviction due to mental incompetence (or whatever the correct term would be)
This years’s winner of the Pam Geller Religious Freedom Award. Pam will be holding the award ceremony outside a mosque in Detroit. Oath Keepers will provide security (bring your favorite toys, guys!!). Bryan Fischer will give the invocaton.
I’m sure the thank you notes from Pam Geller and Frank Gaffney will console her during her time in prison
Hmmm… I wonder if she watches much TV…