Hubby sues in rail killing
THE HUSBAND of a woman shoved in front of a Times Square subway train claims in a new lawsuit his wife’s alleged killer was wrongly released from Bellevue Hospital before the crime.
Robert Watton filed a lawsuit Thursday in Manhattan Supreme Court over his wife Connie Watton’s death.
Melanie Liverpool-Turner, who has schizophrenia, is charged with murder for allegedly pushing Watton in front of an oncoming No. 1 train on Nov. 7, 2016.
Less than a month before Watton's death, cops took LiverpoolTurner to Bellevue after she falsely claimed she pushed someone off the Union Square subway platform on Oct. 19, 2016. Police deemed that case a suicide.
Sources said that her possible exposure to that suicide may have given her ideas about death by train.
Liverpool-Turner has a history of mental illness, including schizophrenia, bipolar, depression and “hearing voices,” sources said.
Watton is suing Liverpool-Turner and the city Health & Hospitals Corporation, which runs Bellevue, as well as the New York City Transit Authority, for unspecified damages.