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Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin

(114,487 posts) Tue Mar 22, 2022, 07:08 PM Mar 2022

26-year-old woman charged with manslaughter for allegedly fatally shoving 87-year-old in NYC

A26-year-old woman was arraigned Tuesday on charges of assault and first-degree manslaughter in connection with the death of an 87-year-old woman who was fatally shoved in New York City earlier this month, according to the Manhattan District Attorney's Office.

The defendant, Lauren Pazienza, has an address in Port Jefferson, New York, the NYPD said.

The charges stem from the death of Barbara Maier Gustern, a Broadway vocal coach who police said was pushed from behind by a woman on the night of March 10 as she stood outside her apartment in Manhattan's Chelsea neighborhood.

Gustern fell and hit her head and had to be hospitalized; the suspect ran away, police said. Gustern's grandson, AJ Gustern, announced in a Facebook post last Tuesday that she had died from her injuries.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/crime/26-year-old-woman-charged-with-manslaughter-for-allegedly-fatally-shoving-87-year-old-in-new-york-city/ar-AAVn8vZ

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26-year-old woman charged with manslaughter for allegedly fatally shoving 87-year-old in NYC (Original Post) Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin Mar 2022 OP

Good first step IbogaProject Mar 2022 #1

Thanks for posting this - I've been watching to see if the news would appear here. NBachers Mar 2022 #2

Barbara Gustern was a precious gem of a human being, blm Mar 2022 #3

61 years would be the appropriate sentence lapfog_1 Mar 2022 #4

Her lawyer said their is no video of the actual attack. How have they decided it was her? Maraya1969 Mar 2022 #5

From... PoliticAverse Mar 2022 #8

I am glad that they identified this lady LetMyPeopleVote Mar 2022 #6

She's apparently got a high-powered attorney... PoliticAverse Mar 2022 #7

Suspect in shoving death of NYC singing coach hid at parents' house, deleted wedding site, prosecuto LetMyPeopleVote Mar 2022 #9

IbogaProject

(3,518 posts)

1. Good first step

Reply to Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin (Original post)

Tue Mar 22, 2022, 07:24 PM

Mar 2022

Hopefully they can stack a few charges and keep her locked up for 40 or 50 years or at least 25 before she is first eligible for parole.

NBachers

(18,073 posts)

2. Thanks for posting this - I've been watching to see if the news would appear here.

Reply to Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin (Original post)

Tue Mar 22, 2022, 07:25 PM

Mar 2022

blm

(113,756 posts)

3. Barbara Gustern was a precious gem of a human being,

Reply to Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin (Original post)

Tue Mar 22, 2022, 07:29 PM

Mar 2022

Goodness surrounded her.

lapfog_1

(29,980 posts)

4. 61 years would be the appropriate sentence

Reply to Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin (Original post)

Tue Mar 22, 2022, 07:39 PM

Mar 2022

without the possibility of parole.

Then she can be released at the age of 87... and hope no one shoves her to the ground and kills her.

Maraya1969

(22,967 posts)

5. Her lawyer said their is no video of the actual attack. How have they decided it was her?

Reply to Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin (Original post)

Tue Mar 22, 2022, 07:41 PM

Mar 2022

PoliticAverse

(26,366 posts)

8. From...

Reply to Maraya1969 (Reply #5)

Tue Mar 22, 2022, 08:33 PM

Mar 2022

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10640401/Long-Island-woman-arrested-death-vocal-coach-shoved-street.html

At Tuesday's arraignment, assistant district attorney Justin McNabney revealed new details of the case, including how an intensive NYPD canvass for surveillance footage led to the identification of Pazienza as a suspect.

The fatal attack occurred at the corner of West 28th Street and Eighth Avenue, and prosecutors say that video shows Pazienza wandering in the area for about 20 minutes after the assault.

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Then, about half an hour after the attack, Pazienza and her fiancé were seen entering Penn Station, where they each swiped a MetroCard belonging to Pereira.

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The painstaking search through surveillance video revealed extremely clear images of the alleged attacker, which the NYPD released to the public on Saturday, leading to an anonymous tip that Pazienza committed the crime and was hiding out at her parents' house on Long Island.

LetMyPeopleVote

(153,851 posts)

6. I am glad that they identified this lady

Reply to Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin (Original post)

Tue Mar 22, 2022, 08:08 PM

Mar 2022

Link to tweet

PoliticAverse

(26,366 posts)

7. She's apparently got a high-powered attorney...

Reply to Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin (Original post)

Tue Mar 22, 2022, 08:26 PM

Mar 2022

From: https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10640401/Long-Island-woman-arrested-death-vocal-coach-shoved-street.html

Pazienza's attorney told DailyMail.com on Tuesday that there is no proof that she pushed Gustern.

'What they have is a photo of someone who looks like my client getting on the subway. This attack did not happen on the subway,' said lawyer Arthur Aidala, a high-powered defense attorney who has previously represented Rudolph Giuliani, Harvey Weinstein, and Roger Ailes.

LetMyPeopleVote

(153,851 posts)

9. Suspect in shoving death of NYC singing coach hid at parents' house, deleted wedding site, prosecuto

Reply to Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin (Original post)

Tue Mar 22, 2022, 11:59 PM

Mar 2022

I am glad that this lady was identified and that someone tipped the police as to where she was hiding

Link to tweet

The woman accused of fatally shoving an 87-year-old New York City voice coach deleted her wedding website and hid at her parents home after the alleged assault, apparently to elude authorities, prosecutors said Tuesday.

Lauren Pazienza, 26, is also alleged to have deleted her social media accounts and stopped using her cellphone, Manhattan Assistant District Attorney Justin McNabney said in a statement.

Pazienza surrendered to police after an anonymous tipster alerted authorities to her location, McNabney said. She was arraigned on charges of first-degree manslaughter and second-degree assault in the incident on March 10 that killed Barbara Maier Gustern.

Gustern, who died later, told authorities that the person later identified as Pazienza approached her near West 28th Street and 8th Avenue and called her an expletive before she forcibly pushed her to the pavement, McNabney said.

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