Suspect In Fatal Bronx Subway Shove Pleads Not Guilty
NEW YORK (CBSNewYork) -- A suspect accused of killing a man by pushing him into the path of an oncoming subway train pleaded not guilty to murder Monday.
Kevin Darden was indicted on a charge of second-degree murder. In an unprovoked attack on Nov. 16, Darden pushed Wai Kuen Kwok onto the tracks at Grand Concourse and East 167th Street in the Bronx, where the 61-year-old man was fatally struck by a southbound D train, police said.
Kwok, who was headed out to eat in Chinatown with his wife, died at the scene.
Suspect In Fatal Bronx Subway Shove Pleads Not Guilty
Darden has spent his life in and out of jail, having been arrested 30 times since his teenage years, WCBS 880's Irene Cornell reported.
Investigators also believe Darden was responsible for another attack on a subway rider 10 days before the fatal push. A man he allegedly knocked to the platform at the West Fourth Street station in Manhattan said he recognized Darden from surveillance video being circulated by police after the attack on Kwok.
During a TV interview in Novemeber, Darden said he has no memory of the incident. His attorney suggested there are identification issues.
His lawyer, Edward McGowan, said then that Darden is innocent until proven guilty.
"Kevin Darden is a human being. He's not a monster," McGowan said. "Like any human being who's charged with a crime, he's entitled to the presumption of innocence."
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