Police say the person of interest was picked up by officers hours before the attack
CHELSEA, Manhattan -- A person of interest was arrested Friday, for allegedly fatally shoving a man down the stairs of a Chelsea subway station hours after an earlier encounter with police that resulted in a brief hospital stay.
Police say a man came up behind the victim, 76-year-old Ross Falzone, and pushed him down the 18th Street station stairs just after 9:30 p.m. on Thursday. First responding officers found the Falzone unconscious and unresponsive. Officials say he suffered a traumatic brain injury, a fractured spine and a fractured rib and was pronounced dead at Bellevue Hospital just before 3 a.m. on Friday.
They also revealed that the person of interest had been picked up by police hours earlier outside and East Side police precinct. Officers encountered the man acting erratically outside the 17th Precinct stationhouse on East 51st Street at around 3:30 p.m.One officer defused the situation, an interaction captured on his body-worn camera and reviewed by police officials, and took the man to Bellevue Hospital in a police cruiser, arriving at the hospital at 3:39 p.m.Detectives say that same man then shoved Falzone to his death about five hours after his release from Bellevue.
The person of interest, described as a man in his 20s or 30s, wearing a black shirt, black shorts and a red and black fanny pack, was taken back into custody for the subway shove on Friday at Penn Station, on the northbound C and E line platform, around 3:30 p.m. Have a breaking news tip or an idea for a story we should cover? Send it to Eyewitness News using the form below.
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