Lauren Pazienza, a 26-year-old events planner from Queens, has turned herself in to authorities in the shoving death of 87-year-old vocal coach Barbara Maier Gustern in NYC's Chelsea neighborhood earlier this month.
She was immediately charged with manslaughter and second-degree assault. It is alleged that Pazienza crossed the street toward Gustern, who it is said she did not know, called her a bitch and shoved her.
Gustern, who was alert initially — later falling unconscious and dying in spite of surgery — described the attack, which happened when she left her apartment building to hail a cab.
I swear, I bet when Gustern walked out and looked for a cab she was shoved because the person who did it felt she was upstreaming ...