Subway ‘punch’ slayer hospitalized
The mentally ill teen charged with fatally punching a 65-year-old grandfather in the subway has been hospitalized after an outburst at Brooklyn Criminal Court on Thursday night, according to law-enforcement sources.
Edward Cordero, 18, remained at Woodhull Medi- cal Center on Friday night, the sources said.
The high-school senior’s courthouse outburst happened out of the public eye, some time after he was perp-walked out of Brooklyn’s 84th Precinct station house and driven to court.
“Mind your f--king business!” he growled at report-
The widower of a Queens woman who was fatally pushed in front of a subway train last year is suing the city over her death — saying her alleged attacker should never have been released from a psych ward where she was raving about killing transit riders.
Melanie Liverpool-Turner, 30, who suffers from schizophrenia, allegedly pushed Connie Watton, 49, from a Times Square platform into a southbound 1 train on Nov. 7, 2017.
The terrible incident occurred just 19 days after LiverpoolTurner landed in Bellevue Hospital for lying about shoving a woman into an oncoming train at the Union Square station, according to police.
Widower Robert Watton is suing the NYC Health + Hospitals, which runs Bellevue. His wife was a longtime housekeeper for the family of billionaire Blackstone Group CEO Stephen Schwarzman.
The Manhattan Supreme Court suit seeks unspecified damages for medical malpractice.
Hospital staff “failed to recognize that [Liverpool-Turner] posed a danger to the public” even though she harbored “ideations of pushing people in front of trains,” the suit says.
Liverpool-Turner pleaded not guilty to second-degree murder and is receiving treatment in a secure state mental-health facility, her criminal attorney, Mathew Mari, told The Post.
Liverpool-Turner claims someone else pushed Watton. A judge has found her competent enough to face prosecution, Mari said. Her criminal case proceeds to trial later this month.
Robert Watton also is suing NYC Transit.
Transit reps did not immediately respond to requests for comment. Hospital spokespeople also did not return messages. ers before reaching court.
Cordero was still in police custody at the courthouse — docketed for arraignment on charges of reckless and intentional manslaughter — when he was instead hauled off to the hospital, sources said.
He remains charged in the death of Staten Island grandfather Jacinto Suarez.
The elderly man had been waiting at the Jay Street-MetroTech station in Downtown Brooklyn on Wednesday when Cordero allegedly confronted him — and punched him from behind, sending him hurtling onto the tracks.