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Woman accused of pushing fellow commuter in front of Times Square subway train smirks at her arraignment

&Tab;&Tab;<div class&equals;"wpcnt">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<div class&equals;"wpa">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<span class&equals;"wpa-about">Advertisements<&sol;span>&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<div class&equals;"u top&lowbar;amp">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<amp-ad width&equals;"300" height&equals;"265"&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab; type&equals;"pubmine"&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab; data-siteid&equals;"109460728"&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab; data-section&equals;"1">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;<&sol;amp-ad>&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<&sol;div>&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<&sol;div>&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;<&sol;div><p>&nbsp&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<h3><&sol;h3>&NewLine;<h6>Melanie Liverpool-Turner sitting at her arraignment&comma; Tuesday<&sol;h6>&NewLine;<h6><span style&equals;"color&colon;&num;240303&semi;"> NY subway pusher recants &&num;8216&semi;shoving&&num;8217&semi; 49-year-old woman in front of a moving subway train<&sol;span><&sol;h6>&NewLine;<h6><span style&equals;"color&colon;&num;240303&semi;"> <&sol;span><br &sol;>&NewLine;<span style&equals;"color&colon;&num;240303&semi;"><strong>Melanie Liverpool-Turner&comma; 30&comma; allegedly pushed Connie Watton&comma; 49&comma; in front of a moving train on the downtown 1 platform at 1&period;20pm on Monday <&sol;strong><&sol;span><&sol;h6>&NewLine;<h6><span style&equals;"color&colon;&num;240303&semi;"><strong>Suspect initially confessed to killing Watton and claimed responsibility for death German college student on the tracks in October <&sol;strong><&sol;span><&sol;h6>&NewLine;<h6><span style&equals;"color&colon;&num;240303&semi;"><strong>In court today&comma; she recanted any admission of guilt telling a judge &&num;8216&semi;I didn&&num;8217&semi;t admit to nothing&&num;8217&semi; and denied pushing the <&sol;strong><b>victim<&sol;b><&sol;span><&sol;h6>&NewLine;<div id&equals;"attachment&lowbar;97028" style&equals;"width&colon; 326px" class&equals;"wp-caption alignleft"><img aria-describedby&equals;"caption-attachment-97028" class&equals;"alignnone size-full wp-image-97028" src&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;konniemoments&period;com&sol;wp-content&sol;uploads&sol;2016&sol;11&sol;connie-wotton2&period;png" alt&equals;"Connie Wotton2&period;png" width&equals;"316" height&equals;"389" &sol;><p id&equals;"caption-attachment-97028" class&equals;"wp-caption-text">Victim&colon; Connie Watton<&sol;p><&sol;div>&NewLine;<p>Prosecutors said Melanie Liverpool-Turner had confessed to killing 49-year-old Connie Watton&comma; of Queens&comma; but she recounted the claim at her arraignment on a murder charge&period; &&num;8216&semi;What&quest; I didn&&num;8217&semi;t admit to nothing&comma;&&num;8217&semi; Liverpool said before the judge reminded her she had a lawyer to speak for her&period; Witnesses said suspect Liverpool-Turner&comma; 30&comma; had been arguing with Watton&comma; 49&comma; at the Times Square-42nd Street station on Monday&period; Moments later she was &&num;8216&semi;shoved&&num;8217&semi; onto the tracks&period; The victim&&num;8217&semi;s brother-in-law said that Watton&&num;8217&semi;s husband was devastated by her death&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;A woman accused of pushing another commuter in front of an oncoming Times Square subway train rolled her eyes&comma;  smirked and seemed annoyed as she was arraigned on murder charges Tuesday&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;After  prosecutor Matthew Thiman told the judge&colon;&&num;8221&semi;This is a strong case with multiple eyewitnesses and the defendant has admitted to the crime&comma;&&num;8221&semi; at Melanie Liverpool’s Manhattan Criminal Court appearance&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;Today in court&comma; Liverpool-Turner denied the murder charge and insisted she was not guilty&period;Liverpool-Turner who’d been rolling her eyes as the prosecutor described her pushing Connie Watton to her death on Monday afternoon&comma; looked astonished&comma; interrupting&comma; &&num;8220&semi;What&quest; I didn&&num;8217&semi;t admit to nothing&period;&&num;8221&semi;<br &sol;>&NewLine;Her lawyer&comma; Mathew Mari&comma; told Judge Gerald Lebovits his 30-year-old client maintains her innocence&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<h6><img class&equals;"alignnone size-full wp-image-97026" src&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;konniemoments&period;com&sol;wp-content&sol;uploads&sol;2016&sol;11&sol;melania-liverpool1&period;jpg" alt&equals;"melania-liverpool1" width&equals;"1200" height&equals;"799" &sol;><br &sol;>&NewLine;<strong>Melanie Liverpool is seen mid-eye roll during her arraignment&period;<&sol;strong><&sol;h6>&NewLine;<p>&&num;8220&semi;The defendant has indicated to me that she does wish to inform the court that she is not guilty&comma;&&num;8221&semi; Mari said&comma; noting she has no criminal record&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;Sources say Liverpool-Turner&comma; does have a psychiatric history&comma; having battled with schizophrenia and bi-polar disorder&period; She claims to hears voices and on another that on another occasion&comma; to have push  a 19-year-old  woman to her death at the Union Square station on Oct&period; 19&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<h6><img class&equals;"alignnone size-full wp-image-97035" src&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;konniemoments&period;com&sol;wp-content&sol;uploads&sol;2016&sol;11&sol;melania-liverpool2&period;png" alt&equals;"Melania Liverpool2&period;png" width&equals;"629" height&equals;"773" &sol;><&sol;h6>&NewLine;<p><strong>Melanie Liverpool-Turner smirked and rolled her eyes in court rolling her eyes as the prosecutor described her pushing Connie Watton to her death&period; She seemed astonished&comma; interrupting&comma; &&num;8220&semi;What&quest; I didn&&num;8217&semi;t admit to nothing&period;&&num;8221&semi; <&sol;strong><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>&OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;I hear voices&period; I push people in front of trains&comma;” she told cops then&comma; police sources said&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;But witnesses told cops in that instance that Liverpool entered the station as the woman jumped&period; The German woman’s death was classified a suicide&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;Liverpool was taken for a psychiatric evaluation&comma; and investigators believe her proximity to that incident may have planted the idea in her mind&comma; the sources said&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;Mari told reporters Tuesday that &&num;8220&semi;I know that she did have some kind of medical history but she wouldn&&num;8217&semi;t go into it&period;&&num;8221&semi;<br &sol;>&NewLine;He said the Queens woman had worked as a home health care aide until about three weeks ago&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><img class&equals;"alignnone size-full wp-image-97037" src&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;konniemoments&period;com&sol;wp-content&sol;uploads&sol;2016&sol;11&sol;melania-liverpool3&period;png" alt&equals;"Melania Liverpool3&period;png" width&equals;"630" height&equals;"623" &sol;><&sol;p>&NewLine;<h6>Melanie Liverpool-Turner&lpar;pictured&rpar; who pushed Connie Watton in front of a subway train has a history of  bi-polar dieorder<&sol;h6>&NewLine;<p>&&num;8220&semi;I interviewed her briefly&period; She didn&&num;8217&semi;t have much to say other than she&&num;8217&semi;s not guilty&period; And she didn&&num;8217&semi;t want to discuss anything else&comma;&&num;8221&semi; Mari said&period;&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;A neighbor of Liverpool’s in St&period; Albans said he was in disbelief that she would do such a thing&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;&&num;8220&semi;I was just as shocked as anyone else&comma;&&num;8221&semi; said Robert Simmons&comma; 42&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;&&num;8220&semi;Melanie was a nice person&period; We had no problems with her&comma; that&&num;8217&semi;s why I was kind of shocked&period; It&&num;8217&semi;s like whoa&period;&&num;8221&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><img class&equals;"alignnone size-full wp-image-96145" src&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;konniemoments&period;com&sol;wp-content&sol;uploads&sol;2016&sol;11&sol;nypd-arrest-perp-after-she-pushed-another-commuter-into-an-oncoming-train&period;png" alt&equals;"nypd-arrest-perp-after-she-pushed-another-commuter-into-an-oncoming-train" width&equals;"632" height&equals;"366" &sol;><&sol;p>&NewLine;<h6 class&equals;"imageCaption"><strong>NYPD officers arrest Melanie Liverpool-Turner after she allegedly killed Connie Watton&comma; another commuter&comma; in front of a moving subway train&comma; Monday<&sol;strong><&sol;h6>&NewLine;<p class&equals;"mol-para-with-font">Her upstairs neighbor described Watton as mild-mannered&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;&OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;Knowing her&comma; I doubt that she started anything&period; I would honestly say she was minding her own business&period; She wasn&&num;8217&semi;t the type that would be looking for a fight&period; She wasn&&num;8217&semi;t that type&comma;&&num;8221&semi;<br &sol;>&NewLine;She said she spoke to Watton’s husband&comma; and &&num;8220&semi;it looked like he didn&&num;8217&semi;t believe it&period; I don&&num;8217&semi;t think he slept last night&period;&&num;8221&semi;<br &sol;>&NewLine;&OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;It’s scary&period;”<br &sol;>&NewLine;A motive has not been established&comma; but Liverpool-Turner told authorities she also pushed a German college student to her death last month at Union Square Station&period; However officers think she is lying as the student is believed to have committed suicide after a breakup&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;She was ordered held without bail pending her next court appearance on Thursday&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;

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