By UMMEY KARIM
A hearing was held Thursday in the manslaughter case against a 24-year-old man who pushed a 96-year old woman to the floor allegedly causing her to die from hip injuries.
The case, before Justice Maxwell Wiley in Manhattan Supreme Court, was adjourned till March 17.
The defendant, Hansel Ramirez, was not present in the courtroom.
Ramirez, according to the indictment, in September was staying at his friend Daryl Brown’s apartment in Inwood and returned to pick up some items when Filomena Vargas told him to wait across the street and refused him entry. Police saw in a video that Ramirez flung the door open and shoved the woman, who fell and called for help while Ramirez fled the scene.
Ramirez was arrested and charged with second-degree assault until Vargas died after a week in the hospital and the charges were raised to manslaughter.
Wiley said Ramirez faced least least two years of state prison, if convicted.
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