Back to the uncaring and callous city I knew growing up, 'eh?
"Homeless good Samaritan left to die on NYC street" by Associated Press | April 27, 2010
NEW YORK — A homeless Guatemalan immigrant was fatally stabbed while trying to help a woman who was being attacked on a New York street, police said yesterday.
Hugo Alfredo Tale-Yax, 31, was face down, unmoving, on the sidewalk outside an apartment building. Video footage from a surveillance camera shows at least seven people going by; some turning their heads to look, others stopping to gawk.
It wasn’t until after Tale-Yax had been lying there for nearly an hour that emergency workers arrived, and by then it was too late.
Your tax dollars at work.
“I think it’s horrific,’’ said Marla Cohan, who teaches at P.S. 82, a school across the street from where Tale-Yax died. “I think people are just afraid to step in. They don’t want to get involved. Who knows what their reasons are?’’
A good lesson for the kids, though.
Tale-Yax was walking behind a man and a woman on 144th Street in the Jamaica section of Queens around 6 a.m. April 18 when the couple got into a fight that became physical, according to police, who pieced together what happened from surveillance footage and interviews with area residents.
The man and woman fled in different directions, and Tale-Yax pursued the man before collapsing. Authorities are searching for the couple.
A 911 call of a woman screaming came in around 6, but when officers responded to the address that was given, no one was there, police said. Another call came in about 7, saying a man was lying on the street, but the caller gave the wrong address. Finally, at 7:20, a caller reported that a man may have been stabbed at 144th Street and 88th Road.
Police and firefighters arrived a few minutes later and found Tale-Yax dead. Officials say they’re not sure whether the man was still alive when passersby opted not to help him.
The Big Apple should be ashamed.
