Hugo Alfredo Tale-Yax, hero, deserved better. The pond scum who took his life is what gives New York a bad name, along with the twenty plus people who walked by as Tale-Yax lay in a pool of blood dying.
This is about as disgusting as it gets in New York. If you are not part of the solution, then you are part of the problem. Tale-Yax did not have to die. Each person who walked by and did nothing is responsible for his death. Each person who listened to his screams if there were any and did nothing is as guilty as the man who shoved the knife into his chest.
Everyone who sat idly by and did nothing should be charged as an accomplice to the crime. I just do not know how some people can live with themselves.
Since New Yorkers will be the ones to get a bad rap for this injustice, I ask how many of the bystanders were native New Yorkers?
Moreover, how many of the bystanders/onlookers are illegal immigrants? And yes, I dare ask the immigration status of Tale-Yax’ killer as well.
Years ago, I had the misfortune of living in a community where NYPD never showed up until the bodies were cold which leads me to ponder their response time and actions. How is it that in their response to a call about a woman being robbed that they did not see this man bleeding to death on the sidewalk?
Actually, I have the answer to that one. They probably saw a homeless man lying on the sidewalk, assumed he was drunk, and sleeping it off.
I recall a similar situation that occurred years ago. A man was robbed on his way home from work one Friday. By the time the police figured it out, the victim who was robbed was paralyzed and near death. The police who investigated the robbery assumed the victim was drunk because he smelled of alcohol so they left the man laying there on the sidewalk still begging for help. Little did they know that during the course of the robbery, thugs poured liquor all over their victim.
What a city.
This brings back memories of the Kitty Genovese murder that occurred in the 1960’s. Genovese’s neighbors listened to her screams as she was being bludgeoned to death for more than an hour and did nothing. Her murder much like this one shocked the country and was a black eye for New York.
A heroic homeless man, stabbed after saving a Queens woman from a knife-wielding attacker, lay dying in a pool of blood for more than an hour as nearly 25 people indifferently strolled past him, a shocking surveillance video obtained by The Post reveals.
Some of the passers-by paused to stare at Hugo Alfredo Tale-Yax last Sunday morning and others leaned down to look at his face.
He had jumped to the aid of a woman attacked on 144th Street at 88th Road in Jamaica at 5:40 a.m., was stabbed several times in the chest and collapsed as he chased his assailant.
In the wake of the bloodshed, a man came out of a nearby building and chillingly took a cellphone photo of the victim before leaving. And in several instances, pairs of people gawked at Tale-Yax without doing anything.
Later, another man stopped, leaned over and vigorously shook Tale-Yax’s body. After lifting the victim’s head and body to reveal a pool of blood, he also walked off.
Not until some 15 minutes after he was shaken by the pedestrian — more than an hour and 20 minutes after the victim collapsed — did firefighters finally arrive and discover that Tale-Yax, 31, had died.
Firefighters were responding to a 911 call of a non-life-threatening injury at 7:23 a.m. when they found his body.
Cops said they received four 911 calls at around the time of the attack reporting a woman screaming, but found nothing. They received no other 911 calls.
The indifference of the pedestrians echoed the infamous 1964 murder of Kitty Genovese in Kew Gardens, Queens.
Her desperate screams after being stabbed failed to rouse assistance from the dozen or so people many neighbors who heard them.
‘That’s unacceptable,’ said a woman who lives in the building near where Tale-Yax was killed.
‘How can you be so heartless? If he’s dying, he might’ve been saved. If you don’t want to get involved, call 911 and leave.’
Another area resident, Ramon Bellasco, 46, said: ‘It’s no good. They needed to help and call the police. I don’t get it.’
George Subraj, owner of Zara Realty, which owns the building next to the murder scene, also gave surveillance footage to the NYPD for its investigation of the case.
The video shows an unidentified woman, standing about 5-foot-3 and wearing a jacket and skirt, walking down 144th Street near 88th Road with her cell phone in hand until.
As she walks under a protective scaffolding next to a building, a man is following her. He is described as 5-foot-6, wearing a green short sleeve shirt and dark pants with a green hat.
As that man accosts the woman under the scaffolding, Tale-Yax walks toward them.
The grainy video shows a scuffle, but most of the action is out of the security camera’s field of vision.
Within seconds, the killer is seen on the video running out from the scaffolding and up 144th St, as the woman heads off in the opposite direction.
Tale-Yax then chases after his murderer, who had stabbed him several times in the torso with a knife, but immediately collapses face down onto 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.
That man, carrying a small bag, gave the dying Tale-Yax a glance before continuing on his way.
The victim’s body was claimed by someone whom the Medical Examiner’s Office declined to identify, and taken to a Brooklyn funeral home.
No arrests have been made, and the police have been unable to identify the woman Tale-Yax was trying to help.
Anyone with information about the murder is asked to call the NYPD’s Crime Stoppers Hotline at 800-577-TIPS.”
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That is just sick. Just more evidence of the moral decay in our country. Where is the strength of character we once had in our great country. Everyone is so afraid for themselves and care nothing about others. The day will come for each of those that are to afraid to act. Their turn will come and they will need help, and they will find that their own fear that kept them from defending themselves will also be present in those around them to prevent anyone from helping them. It will be of their own making and their just desserts. I gravely encourage all to take some classes, martial arts, self defense, small arms defensive training, Something to make our society stronger, more self reliant and kick the criminals butts out of our society. It is only going to get worse. I mean it really doesn’t take much, just a little bit of courage. Courage is all it takes in most cases and the cowardly criminal will run like a rabbit. Look at the 82 (or something around that age) store clerk not long ago that defeated the robber at the store counter. Just courage, that’s all she had and all it took. It is strange but I have seen it happen many times. Right will win over the cowardly wrong criminal almost every time. We outnumber them by an unbelievable ratio if we all just stood our ground they wouldn’t stand a chance. Stand up take back our country. From the crooks, the abusive Government, from Big business crooks. They are all the same. cowardly punks. show them some strength and they will run scared.
Leonard
I saw the video and was saddened by it, but the commercial that preceded it told the story as to why…”Go green, save the planet”, was the message and people are influenced by that, and the same with this sex-saturated media, that is how people act. Take God out of schools, replace that message of love and peace and caring for your neighbor as yourself with a message of save the trees and if it feels good do it, and this is what you have.
But people have not changed over the centuries, as the good samaritan (his type was considered a lowly caste) was the only one who stopped to help a beaten man. That story from the Bible, told by the One who gave HIS life for all sinners on the cross shows why we need a Savior. His name is Jesus. Of course, many will read this and poo-poo the idea and start coming up with reasons why Jesus never lived or Christianity is full of problems. but no other way has worked or ever will. The dead man in the street is the proof.
@Esbee, you are wrong. In fact it is your type of mindset that has turned the public this way. The republican God trickle down econimics every man FOR HIMSELF mentallity is the cause. you morons didnt even want to pass healthcare to help other people yes it will take a little of your TAX. but so what? its to help your brothers and sisters! and dont bring up your religion fantasy crap. this is reallity not a damn fairy tale. maybe you should join us in the real world sometime. you bible thumping ignorant bastard.
Name calling…how original, how thoughtful. A disenfranchised imigrant steps in to harms way and saves a life of someone he did not know, only to die a humililating death on the street as people gawk and walk on by. And you z3ro, with your remarks, mock all those that give their lives for the sake of others. Yours is the height of ignorance. May someone help you to your feet when you are down and desperate.
He deservered it. How can you say when its not somebodys time to go. People will keep dying until I get what I want and that’s my own death. That woman escaped her own death for the moment and he just took her place. We all die and if you go you go… doesn’t really matter how and when.