Woman Is Arrested in Shoving Death of Broadway Singing Coach

A 26-year-old lady surrendered to New York Metropolis police on Tuesday within the deadly shoving of a beloved Broadway vocal coach earlier this month.

The police stated the lady, Lauren Pazienza, shoved the coach, Barbara Maier Gustern, 87, from behind at about 8:30 p.m. on March 10 within the Chelsea neighborhood of Manhattan, inflicting Ms. Gustern to fall and hit her head on the sidewalk. Ms. Gustern was hospitalized with a head damage and died 5 days later.

Ms. Pazienza, who in keeping with the police is from Port Jefferson, Lengthy Island, turned herself in on Tuesday morning with a lawyer and can face a manslaughter cost, the police stated. A regulation enforcement official stated Ms. Pazienza didn’t present a press release to investigators, and a motive has not but been decided.

Ms. Gustern, a longtime vocal coach, had labored with stars equivalent to Debbie Harry, lead singer of the punk rock band Blondie, and the solid of the 2019 Broadway revival of the musical “Oklahoma!”

On the evening she was attacked, Ms. Gustern had left her residence to look at one in all her college students carry out at Joe’s Pub on the Public Theater on Lafayette Avenue.

Ms. Gustern was in a position to give an outline of her assailant to the police earlier than succumbing to her accidents.

Ms. Pazienza’s arrest adopted a dayslong search by New York Metropolis police, who posted photographs and video of the attacker after Ms. Gustern’s demise.

Family of Ms. Pazienza couldn’t instantly be reached for remark.

Susan C. Beachy contributed analysis.