Woman Gets 20-To-Life For Fatal Times Square Shove, DA Says

MIDTOWN MANHATTAN, NY — A woman who pushed a subway passenger in front of an oncoming train in the Times Square subway station will spend at least 20 years in jail and faces a possible life sentence, the Manhattan District Attorney announced Friday.

Melanie Liverpool, 33, pleaded guilty to second degree murder and was sentence to 20-years-to-life on Friday, prosecutors said. The Queens resident admitted to shoving a 49-year-old woman into a train in 2016.

On the afternoon of Nov. 7, 2016 Liverpool pushed Connie Watton into the subway tracks at the Times Square-42nd Street station, prosecutors said. Watton was struck by a train and pronounced dead at the scene. Liverpool was arrested by police responding to the scene of the crime, prosecutors said.

Investigators told reporters in 2016 that Liverpool and Watton likely did not know eachother.

“Melanie Liverpool committed an unconscionable crime when she shoved Ms. Watton off a subway platform and into a speeding train, ending her life and taking her away from her beloved husband and friends," Manhattan District Attorney Cyrus Vance Jr., said in a statement.