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Photo: Barbara Maier Gustern/FACEBOOK On Tuesday, a 26-year-old woman from Long Island was charged with manslaughter for fatally pushing a legendary Broadway vocal coach in early March. According to eyewitnesses, 87-year-old Barbara Gustern was walking near her Chelsea apartment when a woman suddenly shoved her from behind and walked away, leaving Gustern bleeding on the pavement from a head wound. Gustern died of severe brain trauma five days later.
Footage from security cameras in the area shows the attacker lingering for about half an hour after the incident. She appeared to have what prosecutors called a “physical altercation” with a man believed to be her fiancé and watched the ambulance arrive for Gustern before heading to Penn Station to take a train back to her home in Astoria.Gustern died of severe brain trauma five days later.
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