Husband of woman pushed in front of Times Square train sues city

Connie Watton (pictured) was pushed in front of a subway train and killed on Nov. 7, 2016. (FACEBOOK)

The husband of a straphanger shoved to her death in front of a Times Square subway train claims in a new lawsuit his wife’s alleged killer was wrongly released from Bellevue Hospital before committing the crime.

Robert Watton filed a Manhattan Supreme Court lawsuit on Thursday over the death of his wife, Connie Watton.

Melanie Liverpool-Turner, who has schizophrenia, is charged with murder for allegedly pushing Watton in front of an oncoming No. 1 train on Nov. 7, 2016.

Less than a month before Watton's death, cops brought Liverpool-Turner to Bellevue after she falsely claimed to have pushed somebody off the Union Square subway platform on Oct. 19, 2016. Police deemed that case a suicide.

Sources previously told the Daily News that her possible exposure to that suicide may have given her ideas about death by train.

“I hear voices. I push people in front of trains,” she told cops then, police sources said.

Liverpool-Turner had a history of mental illness, including schizophrenia, bipolar, depression and "hearing voices." She also had a "prior history of assault and/or other behavior that posed a danger to members of the public," the suit maintains.

But Bellevue let Liverpool-Turner go "without having performed a proper psychiatric and/or psychological evaluation and/or examination and without properly exercising its authority and control over [her]" at some point before the grisly incident, the suit contends.

Court papers do not provide the exact date Liverpool-Turner left Bellevue.

The civil claim also alleges the downtown train was "traveling at an excessive rate of speed and was otherwise being carelessly and improperly operated."

Melanie Liverpool-Turner, who has schizophrenia, is charged with murder for allegedly pushing Watton in front of an oncoming No. 1 train on Nov. 7, 2016.(STRINGER/REUTERS)

The heartbroken husband is suing Liverpool-Turner and the city Health & Hospitals Corporation, which runs Bellevue, as well as the New York City Transit Authority, for unspecified damages. Neither agency immediately responded to requests for comment.

Liverpool-Turner is being held without bail on Rikers Island. Her lawyer, Mathew Mari, maintains her innocence. "It's a case of mistaken identification," he said.

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