The New York prosecutor’s office formally charged this morning Lauren Pazienza, the woman accused of fatally pushing voice coach Barbara Maier Gustern, 87 and cause his death.
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Prosecutors say that last month and for no reason, Pazienza pushed Gustern while waiting for a taxi in front of his home, on a Chelsea sidewalk. As a result, the 87-year-old woman hit her head and died five days later.
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The 26-year-old defendant will appear before a judge on May 10 to be charged with involuntary manslaughter and assault.
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Pazienza allegedly insulted Barbara Gustern, called her “b—-” and pushed her, causing her to fall and hit her head. The teacher died from her injuries.
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The defendant faces one count of first-degree manslaughter and two counts of second-degree assault, all felonies. She could face between five and 25 years behind bars.
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What the preliminary investigation said about Lauren Pazienza
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According to the prosecution, Pazienza’s actions, immediately after the alleged attack, could help him build a better case against him, thanks to the fact that they fall within a legal concept called ‘conscience of guilt’.
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The ‘guilty conscience’ andIt’s a type of circumstantial evidence used by prosecutors in criminal trials. It refers to a powerful and highly incriminating inference that a judge or jury can draw from the statements or conduct of a defendant (defendant) after a crime has been committed.
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In the case of Lauren Pazienza almost everything she did after allegedly pushing her victim contributes to her ‘guilty consciousness’.
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Pushed the Broadway vocal coach to the floor
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The case against Lauren Pazienza began on March 10, when Barbara Maier Gustern was in front of her house waiting for a taxi and, according to the NYPD, Pazienza walked by her, insulted her and pushed her so hard that she crashed. against the pavement. The victim suffered a severe head injury, He fell into a coma and passed away on March 15.
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Pazienza was charged Tuesday in a Manhattan court with second-degree murder.
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An eyewitness informed the police that the attack had been ‘for no reason’, so the incident was called by some a ‘senseless’ murder.
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Now the prosecution could add evidence of ‘guilty conscience’ to their case, such as the fact that the suspect did not stay at the scene of the crime, but went on the run.
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The actions of the suspect after the alleged crime
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Manhattan Assistant District Attorney Justin McNabney said that after the push, Pazienza quickly walked away from the scene, leaving Gustern on the ground. bleeding profusely from the head.
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The suspect apparently ran into her fiancé a few blocks away, with whom she got into a physical altercation just minutes later. She would have waited there until she saw the arrival of the ambulance that picked up her victim.
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The prosecution also claims that, after that, Pazienza and her fiancé were later seen north of Chelsea, at Penn Station, where they took the subway to Astoria, Queens, where they reside.
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How Your Actions Contribute to a ‘Guilty Conscience’
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Other elements that could add to her ‘guilty conscience’ are that she remained hidden in her condominium in Shore Towers (where units cost between $680,000 to $740,000) and that she deleted each of her social media profiles, including her Linkedin account.
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The suspect even deleted her account on Zola, a site for engaged couples to post their wedding records and details, as she was due to get married in June.
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The day after Gustern’s death, Pazienza he fled to his parents’ home on Long Island. He then stopped using his cell phone and eventually hid it at an aunt’s house.
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Family members who helped the suspect escape and hide for several days from authorities are believed to face criminal charges.
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Former colleagues describe it as a ‘problem factory’
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Separately, the Daily Mail published this Thursday a series of statements by former fellow students from his time at the Fashion Institute of Technology in New York that do not leave it very well.
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In addition to describing it as a troublemaker, they shared a video in which he makes fun of people who can’t listenr. In the video, he is seen contorting his face, screaming and speaking in a distorted voice that they say was to show how people with hearing difficulties express themselves.
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A former friend said that Pazienza has ‘no empathy’ and never showed any remorse for the wrongdoing she did.
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‘She is the ‘poster’ child of the privilege that a white person has: she never faced any consequences in her life,” said one of those people. “ She was enabled by her parents who got her out of all (the problems)though she called them stupid and elemental’.
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