🎶 2022-03-22 17:47:03 – Paris/France.
A 26-year-old woman was arrested Tuesday in the death of an 87-year-old Broadway singing coach who was pushed to the ground on a New York street. Lauren Pazienza, of Port Jefferson, Long Island, has surrendered to face a manslaughter charge in the death of Barbara Maier Gustern, which police say was the result of an "unprovoked and senseless”.
Police had released surveillance video of a woman they were looking for in connection with the case.
#Breaking: Police arrest suspect in the fatal stampede of beloved 87-year-old voice coach Barbara Gustern. https://t.co/VjI4ekAzIt
— CBS New York (@CBSNewYork) March 22, 2022
Gustern hit her head and was seriously injured on March 10 when a woman crossed the street, came up behind her and pushed her to the ground on West 23rd Street in Manhattan's Chelsea neighborhood. She died on March 15.
Online court records did not mention a lawyer who could speak on Pazienza's behalf. Information about his indictment was not immediately available.
Friends told The New York Times that Gustern had just left his apartment to attend a student's performance after hosting a rehearsal for a cabaret show at his apartment.
Gustern had been known in the theater world for decades.
She has worked with singers ranging from cast members of the 2019 Broadway revival of the musical "Oklahoma!" to Taylor Mac, experimental theater artist and recipient of the 2017 MacArthur "Genius Grant," who told The Times she was "one of the great humans I've met."
Her late husband, Joe Gustern, was also a singer, with credits such as "The Phantom of the Opera" on Broadway.
“She is the most inspiring force in my life,” her grandson, AJ Gustern, told CBS New York last week.
Gustern's mother died when he was young, so his 87-year-old grandmother became his second mother.
“I was going to shows, I was spending time with his students,” he said.
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