Pazienza and Pereira had visited a few art galleries before grabbing takeout and heading to Chelsea Park - the east end of which is on 9th Avenue between 27th and 28th Streets - when, according to prosecutors, Pazienza verbally attacked a Parks Department employee after he informed her that the park would soon be closing. Pazienza allegedly told detectives that she had several glasses of wine that evening, per ABC New York. Prosecutors say that before the deadly push, Pazienza and her fiancé, Naveen Pereira, were celebrating a night on the town 100 days ahead of their planned June wedding, according to the New York Times. Gustern lost consciousness in the ambulance on the way to the hospital and died as a result of her injuries five days later. The victim allegedly told responders that the shove was “as hard as she had ever been hit in her life,” prosecutors said. The friend helped Gustern into the lobby of the voice coach's nearby apartment building and waited for police to arrive, according to NBC New York.
The victim was still conscious after the fall and ran into a friend while bleeding profusely from her head, according to the New York Times. The seemingly unprovoked attack happened in a Chelsea neighborhood on March 10, when Pazienza allegedly crossed West 28th street near 8th Avenue, called Gustern a “bitch” and pushed the 90-pound victim with such force that Gustern fell to the pavement and injured her head, as previously reported. The defendant was denied bail after prosecutors argued she was a flight risk and a danger to others during Tuesday’s arraignment at the Manhattan Supreme Court. Lauren Pazienza, 26, pleaded not guilty to charges related to the death of Broadway singing coach Barbera Gustern, 87, according to the New York Times.
A judge denied bail for the New York-area socialite accused of shoving a beloved elderly woman to her death earlier this year.
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