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Woman charged with murder in subway shoving to undergo psych examination

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Commuters wait on the platform Friday as a train passes through the 40th St-Lowry St Station, where a man was killed after being pushed onto the subway tracks, in the Queens section of New York.

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A woman accused of pushing a man to his death in front of a subway train was charged Saturday with murder as a hate crime and was ordered to undergo a psychiatric examination. Police arrested Erica Menendez on Saturday after a passer-by on a street noticed she resembled the woman seen in a surveillance video.