NYC subway push suspect: I was having a bad day

NY subway pusher: New York City police officers escort 31-year-old Erika Menendez to an awaiting car as she screams, at New York City Police department 112th Precinct in the Queens Borough of New York, December 29, 2012. IMAGE

Reuters: Joshua Lott. NY subway pusher: New York City police officers escort 31-year-old Erika Menendez to an awaiting car as she screams, at New York City Police department 112th Precinct in the Queens Borough of New York, December 29, 2012. IMAGE

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Erika Menendez previously admitted to targeting Indian immigrant Sunando Sen because of his ethnicity.

NEW YORK — A disturbed woman accused of shoving a man in front of a New York City subway train to his death last month says she did it because she was having a bad day.

Erika Menendez spoke to The New York Post on Friday at the city jail where she is awaiting trial in the killing.

Menendez told the newspaper her "mind was just racing" the day of the attack.

She said, "I was homeless. I was hungry. I was fighting with my boyfriend. He came running up the stairs, and I just got up and pushed him."

Menendez says she picked her victim because of his ethnicity.

Slain 46-year-old Indian immigrant Sunando Sen was Hindu. Menendez says she has "been beating up Muslims and Hindus for a long time."

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