Article: Witnesses testify bike messenger was waiting to attack pedestrian

Matthew Givens nursed a grudge after being knocked from his bike and, despite pleas from bystanders, stalked the man the next day and pushed him down a flight of stairs at Union Station, killing him, jurors were told as Givens' trial got under way Tuesday.

"I said he didn't mean to do it. He said b---- you don't know what you are talking about," testified Nadine Lewis, a security guard. "He had a lock and he was trying to hit the victim, if I didn't move back, he would have hit me."

Givens, a bike messenger, is accused of pushing Keith P. Radloff down a flight of stairs on the Madison Street entrance of Union Station on Dec. 15, 1999, as he tried to make his train.

The day before, Givens had ...

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