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US- Hundreds gather in Times Square for subway victim’s vigil, denounce anti-Asian violence

Ns News Online Desk:Ns News Online Desk: Hundreds of people gathered in Times Square on Tuesday night for a mass vigil in memory of random subway-shove victim Michelle Go — including a close pal who said the slain woman loved the city.

“She loved New York. We would talk about it in the pandemic that we would rather be nowhere else,’’ said Kim Garnett, one of Go’s friends and coworkers at the powerhouse consulting firm Deloitte.

“She loved Central Park. She loved living on the Upper West Side,” Garnett said of the 40-year-old California transplant, who was killed by an alleged homeless psycho in a Times Square subway station Saturday,

“I was talking to one of my friends yesterday about what I would say about Michelle,’’ Garnett said. “The first thing that came to mind was, wow, she hated attention. And right now she’s listening and saying, ‘Is this reality. Did this happen in Times Square?’ ”Go was remembered by another friend, Rakesh Duggal, as a travel-enthusiast who always prepared an agenda ahead of her trips.

“She loved to travel … We must have done a dozen trips together,” Duggal recalled. “Wherever we went, Michelle always had a plan and it was often accompanied by a spreadsheet and all of the reservations.”

Professionally, Duggal said Go never shied away from tough tasks .“She was a glass ceiling breaker. No challenge was too big or scary for her. She always wanted to work on the biggest and most challenging things,” said Duggal.

Jae McGuire, 40, of Woodside, Queens, called Go’s death “senseless violence. “She didn’t even see her attacker. She’s standing there waiting for the train like me and what I do every day,’’ McGuire said. “This could happen to me or any of my friends.’’

Some speakers denounced anti-Asian violence in general in the Big Apple. The horrific incident has not been deemed a hate crime by the NYPD, but local Asian communities have noted the increase in overall attacks against members since the COVID-19 pandemic emerged in 2020. Go was Asian.

The vigil, held at the Red Steps in the Crossroads of the World and organized by Asians Fighting Injustice, comes just three days after Go was pushed in front of an R train and killed at the Times Square station.

Group founder Ben Wei told The Post the group is demanding that City Hall set up an Asian-American task force to address ongoing concerns over anti-Asian violence.

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