I'm Brian Lehrer. This is my daily politics podcast from WNYC Studios. It's Wednesday, February 16th.

The latest murder to make headline news in New York City may have several things in common with the last one.

Christina Lee, who was killed in Chinatown on Sunday when a man followed her into her building,

and Michelle Goh, the woman pushed onto the tracks at Times Square last month, were both allegedly

killed by men who may have had serious mental health issues. We know that to be the case in the Michelle Goh murder.

It is seeming it may well be the case for the man charged with killing Christina Lee. Of course,

both victims were Asian American women. We talked about that aspect on yesterday's show about

hate crimes. Today we'll focus on the mental health of alleged perpetrators such

as these and why they fall through the cracks until they sometimes do the worst possible thing.

In fact, as you'll hear, one of our guests doesn't even like the term fall through the

cracks. This is a New York City issue. This is an issue in cities across the country. With me now are New York

Times, Poverty and Social Services correspondent, Andy Newman, who has a story called Decades Adrift

in a Broken System, then charged with a death on the tracks. And Dr. Anthony Carrino, MD, Director of

Psychiatry at CUCS, Janian Medical

Care, a health care program for people impacted by homelessness.

Andy and Dr. Carino, thank you for coming on and welcome to WNYC today.

Thank you, Brian.

Thanks, Brian.

Good to be here.

Andy, the alleged killer of Michelle Goh is a man named Marshall Simon.

Who is he?

Marshall Simon is a guy who he's 61 years old.

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