Man gets 23 years for subway killing

A schizophrenic man was sentenced in New York to 23 years in prison for pushing a young woman to her death in front of a subway train in a case that led to a state law allowing court-ordered treatment for the mentally ill.

Andrew Goldstein, 37, admitted in a signed statement that he pushed Kendra Ann Webdale, a 32-year-old aspiring screenwriter, into the path of an oncoming train at a Manhattan station in January 1999. At the time Goldstein pushed Webdale, he had refused to take his antipsychotic medication.

“I knew it was wrong to push her onto the tracks,” he said in his statement. “I also acknowledge that by pushing her off the platform and into the path of the oncoming train I caused her death.”