Suspect in Fatal Subway Push Accused of Hitting Correction Officer
A woman accused of fatally pushing a man into the path of a subway train assaulted a correction officer shortly after arriving at a hospital emergency room in Queens, a city official said on Wednesday.
The woman, Erika Menendez, 31, apparently grew agitated on Monday after she caught a glimpse of herself on the television news in the emergency room at Elmhurst Hospital Center, according to Robin Campbell, a spokesman for the New York City Correction Department.
“She was emerging from a bathroom when she became upset at seeing herself on the television, and she lashed out at the officer,” Mr. Campbell wrote in an e-mail on Wednesday. “She pulled the officer’s hair and, in the process, hit her face.”
Ms. Menendez was transferred to Elmhurst from the Rikers Island jail after a judge ordered her to undergo a psychiatric evaluation.
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