Per edit: Huang Sheng
Overseas network on January 17, local time on the morning of the 15th, the United States New York City a subway push case. A 40-year-old Asian woman was suddenly pushed down by a homeless man in her 60s while waiting at a subway station, crashing into an oncoming train and dying. At present, the suspect has been charged with murder and the identity of the victim has been confirmed.
Based on the news of foreign media such as the New York Post and the US Chinese Network on the 16th, the New York Police Department held a press conference after the incident to inform the case.
The NYPD chief said at the press conference that the 61-year-old suspect, Simon Martial, turned himself in to police after the suspect fled the scene.
Image source: Overseas Network
New York police also released the identity of the 40-year-old victim, who he said was Michelle Alyssa Go, from New York City.
According to US media, the victim is a senior manager of Deloitte, one of the well-known big four accounting firms, who was keen on volunteer service before his death, helping the elderly, homeless people and other vulnerable groups for many years. Police said the suspect had a history of mental illness and that the case was not a hate crime.
According to the New York Post reported on the 16th, the victim's name is Michelle Aylssa Go, who has obtained an MBA (Master of Business Administration) degree from the New York University Stern School of Business, and has worked in Deloitte for strategy, operations and mergers and acquisitions.
The victims are keen to volunteer. For the past decade, she has been serving in the New York Youth Coalition, helping vulnerable groups including the elderly, homeless, immigrants, and poor primary and secondary school students. After learning her bad news, neighbors and colleagues mourned her, saying that she was a smart, kind, and excellent woman.
Investigators have yet to determine whether the case was linked to racism.
According to foreign media reports quoted by the World Wide Web, there have been several attacks against Asians in a week, and New York State Senator John Liu said that "it is 2022, and Asians in New York and across the United States are still often subjected to relentless, hateful attacks." ”
It is worth noting that according to the China News Network, data from the New York City Police Department in the United States shows that as of December 5, 2021, local time, there were 503 reports of hate crimes in New York City in 2021, double the 252 cases in 2020.
New York City Police Chief Shea reportedly said, "We publish hate crime statistics in the hope of alerting the public." These cases are our number one priority, and they are punished more heavily because they are not just for one person, but for an entire group or class. ”
Local police said the surge in the number of crimes in this category was driven by crimes against asian communities. The number of hate crimes in Asian-American communities increased by 361% in 2021, from 28 in 2020 to 129.
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