The homeless man accused of fatally pushing Michelle Go into an oncoming subway train in Times Square exploded in a Manhattan courtroom on Tuesday. After prosecutors argued he was deemed mentally competent to stand trial.
Marshall Simon, who was incarcerated at a high-security state psychiatric hospital on Wards Island two years ago, has since passed a mental health exam and was charged with murder in the January 2022 slaying that shocked the city. in court, prosecutors told Manhattan’s top newspaper.
But Simon, 63, was unable to maintain his composure during the short hearing and, after trying to speak to Judge Althea Drysdale, said: God, I hate you,” court officials said as they led him away.
His lawyer said the troubled vagrant continues to experience delusions, including believing that he is a “supernatural” being and that aliens will “save” him. He said there was.
“He’s a supernatural being, so he’s a spaceship I still have a strong belief that God will come and save me,” he told the judge. Mental evaluation.
Schumann argued that Simon was incompetent to stand trial and requested that the defense be allowed to have its own experts conduct an evaluation.
“I think they’re based on incomplete information. I think once they have complete information, they’ll agree that he’s not fit to proceed,” he said.
Simon was turned over to the state Department of Mental Health and Hygiene on April 20, 2022, after prosecutors determined he was not competent to stand trial for random murder.
He was sent back to Rikers Island on April 17 after Manhattan Assistant District Attorney Constantine Coritsidis announced he had passed a mental health examination.
Schuman said the prosecutor’s findings were “incredibly unethical” and that Rikers’ records from last week showed Marchal remained “highly paranoid” and “particularly paranoid.” accused of being
“He was found with a compromised understanding of his case,” Schumann told the judge, asking the defense to provide Simon’s information before his next court appearance on May 27. I ordered him to undergo a medical examination.
Simon’s family said he suffered from schizophrenia and had been in and out of mental health facilities for more than 20 years before the fatal subway shove on January 9, 2022.
Authorities said Simon randomly pushed Goh, 40, a senior manager at top consulting firm Deloitte, as he waited to board a southbound R train from the Times Square station platform. He brazenly admitted that.
He is charged with second-degree murder.
Goh, an MBA graduate from New York University’s prestigious Stern School of Business, had volunteered as an advocate for the homeless before his unreasonable death.
