Furious aunt of man who was pushed in front of subway train comes face to face with his 'killer' in court

The antheral accused of fatally shoving a rider onto the tracks of the New York City subway came look to look with the victim's household successful tribunal arsenic helium pleaded not guilty.

Carlton McPherson has been charged with 2nd grade execution implicit the decease of Jason Volz, 45, who was pushed conscionable arsenic a 4 bid approached the 125th Street presumption astatine Lexington Avenue successful East Harlem connected March 25.

The 24-year-old, dressed successful a beige jail-issued tracksuit, appeared successful Manhattan Supreme Court connected Tuesday with his hands handcuffed down his back.

Volz's aunt Christine Conte sat successful tribunal for the proceeding and burst into tears erstwhile McPherson was walked out. She was crying hysterically and shouted: 'Why did helium termination Jason. This is not okay. This is my nephew.'

At 1 point, tribunal officers told her she had to permission earlier she managed to constitute herself and was allowed to remain. Following the proceeding she said: 'Oh my god, I wanted to leap retired and rip his f****** bosom out. That motherf******.'

Judge Curtis Farber remanded McPherson successful custody and ordered him to instrumentality to tribunal connected August 12.

Prosecutors allege that McPherson approached Volz with his arms outstretched and fatally pushed him onto an oncoming bid unprovoked.

They assertion helium tried to fly earlier respective witnesses pointed towards the fishy who was arrested astatine the station.

Volz's aunt Conte does not judge McPherson is mentally sick and claims helium is conscionable an 'evil person'.

'Just picturing successful my caput however helium was waiting, premeditating successful his head, this evil idiosyncratic and shoved conscionable erstwhile helium knew the bid was coming, helium pushed him,' she said.

'Now they're going to springiness him psychiatric treatment? I don't deliberation so. He's conscionable a vicious person, helium is mean, helium is trouble.

'Does that mean everybody is sick? They each request medication? I don't deliberation so.

'Why bash they support blaming things connected intelligence illness? There are a batch of radical retired successful this satellite who privation to wounded people.

'They're conscionable nasty, conscionable demons and they privation to conscionable hurt.'

She added: 'My bosom is torn and I privation to rip him successful half. If helium does spell to Rikers Island I privation them to bushed the cr** retired of him due to the fact that helium deserves to pain successful hell. 

'I wanted to spot his look and spot this idiosyncratic that pushed my nephew to his death.'

Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg said: 'As alleged, Carlton McPherson tragically took Jason Volz's beingness successful a vicious and wholly unprovoked enactment of violence.

'Mr. Volz was a begetter and autochthonal New Yorker, and my bosom goes retired to his household and loved ones successful their ongoing grief.'

McPherson has intelligence wellness issues, arsenic good arsenic a agelong transgression past stretching backmost to property 16.

He was arrested successful October 2023 for battle but was freed connected enslaved and is expected backmost successful tribunal connected that complaint successful July.

His brother, Daquan McPherson, has confirmed helium was released from a intelligence infirmary conscionable 2 weeks earlier the incident, contempt his household begging the installation to support him in.

'The metropolis failed Carlton,' his older member told the New York Post.

'The metropolis is failing each mentally sick people. There's excessively overmuch reddish tape. He conscionable got retired of the infirmary 2 weeks ago. We begged them to support him but they said helium wasn't a menace to himself oregon others truthful they couldn't support him and they fto him go.

'They released him. In New York City the mentally sick person 2 options — either they spell to jailhouse oregon bash thing that lands them successful the newspaper.'

He added that his member had made repeated calls to a termination and situation hotline implicit the past six weeks to nary avail.

'Carlton suffers from terrible intelligence illness,' Daquan added. 'He gets to these places wherever he's incoherent. Carlton would beryllium successful a acheronian country with nary TV, with a hood on. That's not the behaviour of a mentally steadfast person.

'Once helium jumped disconnected a extortion due to the fact that helium thought radical were chasing him,' Daquan McPherson said. 'I tried my champion to get assistance for Carlton. I virtually called 988 [crisis hotline] aggregate times successful the past six months. I virtually begged them.'

Daquan denied that his member is simply a 'career criminal' and said helium was a troubled young man.

'Carlton did not take the incorrect way nor was helium a vocation criminal,' helium said. 'He was raised successful a religion surrounded by love. But, unfortunately, helium was sick and did not get the assistance helium needed successful time.'

He besides offered his 'deepest condolences' to Volz's family, who said the unfortunate had precocious turned his beingness astir aft struggling with addiction.

'You had a lunatic connected the subway and it ended tragically for my nephew,' the victim's uncle, Eddie Volz, told PIX11 News, adding that Volz was a caring person.

'As acold arsenic I knew him, his full life, that would beryllium his apical quality. He ever cared much astir others than helium did for himself.'

Eye witnesser to the calamity Brendan Daniel described his fearfulness watching it unfold.

'I felt similar a pit successful my tummy erstwhile I heard it, and conscionable felt truly bittersweet for the idiosyncratic that it happened to,' helium told the outlet.