A New York City woman will face at least 22 years in prison for shoving a Hindu man to his death off a subway platform in 2012. Erika Menendez, 33, pleaded guilty to first-degree manslaughter in the racially-motivated killing of Sunnando Sen, 46, whom she believed was a Muslim.
According to Queens District Attorney Richard Brown, Menendez said she has hated Muslims since 9/11.
An eyewitness said that Menendez was talking to herself and pacing up and down the subway platform around 8 p.m. on December 27, 2012 as Sen was waiting for the train. Just as the train was pulling into the station, Menendez came up behind Sen and pushed him in front of the moving train.
Sen, who was from India and ran a printing shop, was hit by the train and suffered fatal wounds of multiple blunt force trauma.
