NATION : Murder Defendant Killed by Bus
A 95-year-old man awaiting trial for murder was struck by a bus and killed after receiving special permission to leave his apartment for a hospital visit, police said today.
“This is more than ironic, it’s Kafkaesque,” said Manhattan Supreme Court Justice Rose Rubin, the judge who was to preside at the man’s trial.
The man, Oliver Barre, was hit by a city bus as he walked across the street with a companion Tuesday morning on his way to a hospital about a block away. He died two hours later at Bellevue Hospital.
Barre had been charged with second-degree murder in the metal-pipe bludgeoning of an elderly neighbor June 16. Barre claimed the victim, Norma Marks, 88, had tried to strangle him and poison other people in his building.
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