Man Indicted For Fatal Subway Push

A Brooklyn man has been indicted for the November 2005 murder of his 22-year-old friend who was punched and kicked and then shoved into the path of an oncoming &#82207” train while the two young men argued on the elevated 51st Street station in Woodside.
District Attorney Richard A. Brown said, &#8220The defendant is accused of fighting on an elevated subway platform in the predawn hours of a winter morning with one of his friends and then knocking the man down before kicking and rolling him onto the tracks as a subway train entered the station. His alleged actions were callous and displayed a total disregard for human life.”
The district attorney said that a Queens County grand jury has returned an indictment charging Richie Molina, 20, with two counts of second-degree murder. He faces up to 25 years to life in prison if convicted. The defendant, who has been held without bail since his arrest in November 2005, will be arraigned on the indictment on August 29.
According to District Attorney Brown, the defendant is charged with intentionally causing the death of Edison Guzman, 22, at 4:55 a.m. on November 27, 2005, as they stood on the elevated platform of the 51st Street and Roosevelt Avenue &#82207” subway station. It is alleged that the two men had just come from a nearby restaurant when they began to argue and the defendant punched the victim, knocking him to the ground, and then pushed and rolled him with his leg onto the subway tracks just as a &#82207” train was entering the station. The victim was struck and killed by the train.