The family of a man who died after being pushed onto subway tracks in New York City had only good things to say about him during funeral services on Wednesday.
On Monday, Ki Suk Han, 58, was on his way to get a passport when he got into a fight at the 49th Street Times Square subway station. Police say Han was pushed onto the tracks by Naeem Davis, 30.
Han tried to climb out but was pinned between the wall and the train. Passersby tried to revive him at the station, but he died on the scene.
"I just really wish I had one last chance to tell my dad that I love him," said Han's daughter Ashley, 20, a student at Hunter College, during the funeral service on Wednesday.
She chided herself for not heeding his advice when he was alive.
"His words usually went in one ear and out the other. I would do anything to hear those words one more time," she said.
"I'm sorry for all my years of teenage angst. I promise to fulfill my role as your daughter."
Han emigrated to the U.S. 25 years ago. His wife Serim has been disabled and unable to work for several years. Han worked at a drycleaner in Midtown until the economy collapsed, and he'd been unable to find work since then.
Serim said he had been drinking the day he died, and she sent him out of the house.
"He was drunk. We had a fight before he left here at 11 a.m. I told him to leave," she said.
It appears that Han and Davis got into an argument in the subway station and Han jumped the turnstile. Davis then pushed Han, who stumbled onto the train tracks. Davis is charged with second-degree murder, because it seems that he did not mean to kill Han, but his 'depraved indifference" resulted in the man's death.
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