Kathleen Hanna Seeks to Identify Woman Who Killed Her Singing Coach

Kathleen Hanna has referred to as on the general public to assist establish the girl who pushed her singing coach Barbara Maier Gustern on the streets of Manhattan, an “unprovoked, mindless” assault that resulted in deadly accidents for Gustern.

“I can’t even fucking imagine I’m posting this,” Hanna wrote on Instagram subsequent to surveillance pictures of the alleged attacker. “This individual murdered somebody I like very a lot and I actually don’t need anybody else to ever must go through what the beautiful, energetic, humorous as hell Barbara Maier Gustern needed to undergo.”

Gustern — an 87-year-old Broadway singing coach who additionally labored with the Bikini Kill vocalist, died Tuesday from traumatic mind accidents sustained in the course of the March 10 assault. In line with the NYPD, Gustern was shoved from behind close to her house on West twenty eighth Road and Eighth Avenue by a girl who “crossed the road [and] pushed [her] in an unproved mindless assault,” James Essig, the New York police chief of detectives, informed reporters Tuesday. The Each day Information additionally posted surveillance video of the girl strolling across the time of the assault.

No phrases had been exchanged by Gustern and the girl previous to the incident, after which the attacker fled down Ninth Avenue. “We’re asking the general public’s assist in fixing this disgusting and disgraceful offense dedicated towards a weak, aged feminine who was doing nothing however strolling down the streets of New York Metropolis,” Essig added.

Gustern’s household can be providing a $3,500 reward for any info resulting in the identification of the girl, NBC New York reports. “I battle to grasp and deal with this world each day, and albeit that is past my capacity to bear,” Gustern’s grandson wrote on Fb Tuesday. “Do what you possibly can to your fellow human being, irrespective of how small. Make the time. Stopping pointless loss and violence like this begins with us as people. We should care extra for one another.”