India, May 10 -- The man accused of killing an elderly man by pushing him down a stairway at a Chelsea subway station was released from a psychiatric evaluation just hours before the attack, officials said, according to Fox News. Rhamell Burke, 32, made his first court appearance on Saturday, May 9.

He has been charged with second-degree murder for the May 7 attack.

Police said that surveillance video showed Burke violently shoving a man down the stairs at the 18th Street subway station around 9:30 pm that day. The video showed the victim, 76-year-old Ross Falzone, flying into the air and hitting his head on the steps. He then landed at the bottom of the staircase.

Falzone was rushed to Bellevue Hospital by paramedics. He succumbed to ...