NEW YORK (1010 WINS) \u2014 A suspect was arrested on Friday for allegedly shoving a man down a New York City staircase, killing him, in an apparently unprovoked attack only hours after he underwent a psychiatric evaluation, the NYPD said.<\/p>\n
The victim was at the corner of West 18th Street and Seventh Avenue in Chelsea at about 9:30 p.m. on Thursday when he was assaulted by a man, officials said. During the altercation the suspect pushed the victim, causing him to fall down the steps at the 18th Street subway station on the 1 line.<\/p>\n
Officers responding to a 911 call found the victim\u2014identified by police as 76-year-old Ross Falzone of the Upper West Side\u2014unconscious and unresponsive. Falzone suffered a traumatic brain injury, a fractured spine and a fractured rib, officials said.<\/p>\n
He was rushed to Bellevue Hospital in critical condition and pronounced dead hours later.<\/p>\n
Investigators said that the shoving appeared unprovoked, and that Falzone’s death is being investigated as a homicide.<\/p>\n
Police also revealed that the person of interest taken into custody had been picked up by officers outside a Midtown East precinct only hours before the attack. He was described as a 32-year-old man.<\/p>\n
Officers found the man acting erratically outside the 17th Precinct station house on E. 51st Street at around 3:30 p.m. He pulled out a stick from the garbage and held it as the cops approached him, authorities said.<\/p>\n
One officer was able to defuse the situation and brought the man to Bellevue Hospital, arriving at 3:39 p.m. The interaction was caught on the officer’s body camera and reviewed by police officials.<\/p>\n
The man underwent a psychiatric evaluation and was released after an hour, officials said. He then allegedly pushed Falzone to his death five hours later.<\/p>\n
The suspect was picked up by officers in connection to the subway shove at Penn Station, on the northbound C and E line platform, at about 3:30 p.m. on Friday.<\/p>\n
After news of the fatal push broke, Mayor Zohran Mamdani announced an immediate investigation into Bellevue Hospital’s handling of psychiatric evaluations. This review will also include a broader review of psychiatric evaluation and discharge protocols across the public hospital system, the mayor said.<\/p>\n
“I am horrified by the killing of Ross Falzone and the circumstances that led to it. I extend my condolences to his loved ones,” Mamdani said. “New Yorkers deserve answers. That is why I’ve directed NYC Health + Hospitals to conduct both an immediate investigation on what steps should have been taken to prevent this tragedy and a comprehensive review of their psychiatric evaluation and discharge protocols.”<\/p>\n
Mamdani also asked the New York State Department of Health to conduct a comprehensive investigation into the handling of this specific psychiatric evaluation, and a broader review of similar cases at Bellevue Hospital.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"NEW YORK (1010 WINS) \u2014 A suspect was arrested on Friday for allegedly shoving a man down a…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":225384,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[4921,9,56,63,261,65,64,103,615,57073],"class_list":["post-225383","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york-city","tag-chelsea","tag-new-york","tag-ny","tag-nyc","tag-nyc-crime","tag-nyc-headlines","tag-nyc-news","tag-nypd","tag-subway","tag-subway-attack"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/225383","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=225383"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/225383\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/225384"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=225383"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=225383"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=225383"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}