(April 24) -- A homeless man who was stabbed while saving a woman from a knife-wielding attacker lay dying in a pool of his own blood for more
than an hour while several New Yorkers walked past without calling for
help.
Surveillance video obtained by the New York Post shows that
some
passers-by paused to gawk at Hugo Alfredo Tale-Yax early Sunday morning
and
yet kept on walking.One man came out of a nearby building and
took a cellphone photo of the victim before leaving. Another leaned over
and vigorously shook the dead man before walking away. But most people
never stopped.
Firefighters arrived more than an hour and 20
minutes after Tale-Yax
collapsed. By that time, the 31-year-old was dead.
"They needed
to help and call the police. I don't get it," resident Ramon Bellasco,
46, told the Post.
The incident happened at 7:21 a.m. almost a
week ago at 88 Road and 144th Street in the borough of Queens, but
police didn't have a clear idea of what happened until recently.
Tale-Yax
is seen on the grainy video approaching a man who was
threatening a woman with a knife. The man turned and stabbed Tale-Yax
but most of the action is out of the security camera's field of vision.
Both the stabber and the woman then fled in different directions and
Tale-Yax stumbled a few paces before collapsing face-down on the
sidewalk.
Within a minute or so, the first of a long series of
people begins walking by Tale-Yax without going to his aid.
Police
told
the Post they received four 911 calls at around the time of the
attack reporting a woman screaming, but found nothing. They said they
received no other 911 calls.
The incident is reminiscent of the
rape and murder of Kitty Genovese, also in Queens, in 1964. In that
case, dozens of people witnessed some or all of the attack and yet no
one did anything to stop it.
No arrests have been made in the
latest slaying, and police have been unable to identify the woman
Tale-Yax was trying to help.
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