The woman fatally pushed to her death at the Times Square subway station was a married chef who “loved” working in the Big Apple, her brother-in-law said Tuesday.
“Obviously, this is terrible,” the relative said about the senseless attack on Connie Watton, 49, allegedly at the hands of schizophrenic Melanie Liverpool, 30.
“Out of a million people, this had to happen to her? She was honestly the most caring, loving, honest person I ever met. She would never hurt anybody. She never feared the city,” said the brother-in-law, who declined to give his name.
The relative said Watton’s husband was completely distraught.
“He’s not doing very well. He’s in total shock,” the relative said. “I hope she gets prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law,” referring to Liverpool.
The Post obtained an exclusive first photo of a smiling Watton standing with her husband, who has his arm draped around her.
Liverpool, who has a history of mental illness, shoved Walton in front of an oncoming downtown No. 1 train on Monday for no apparent reason, law enforcement sources said.
Witnesses informed nearby Transit officers, and Liverpool was placed under arrest, sources said.
While being handcuffed, Liverpool admitted that she had “pushed someone onto the tracks,” one source said.
Previously, she claimed that she pushed a German college student onto the tracks in an Oct. 19 incident at Union Square station. But cops said that the 19-year-old student was upset over a recent breakup with her boyfriend, and took her own life.