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Good Samaritan Hugo Tale Yax Dies When Helping Women Being Mugged

by NowPublic Staff | April 26, 2010 at 01:03 pm

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Bystanders pass by for two hour watching Homeless Man Hugo Tale Yax Bleed To Death (video)

Homeless hero, Hugo Tale-Yax, laying bleeding for two hours bleeding from a stab wound, as at least 20 New Yorkers passed by doing nothing. By the time police and emergency crews arrived on the seen Mr. Tale Yax was dead.

Surveillance video shows Hugo Tale-Yax, 31, collapsing after saving a woman from being mugged. The assailant and the victim apparently fled in different directions while Tale-Yax lay bleeding and as people strolled by.

One (man) even emerged from a nearby building to photograph Mr Tale-Yax, a 31-year-old Guatemalan immigrant, with his mobile phone.

Another man bent down to shake him, lifting him to reveal the pool of blood, but he still walked away.

When police and firemen finally arrived at 7.23am on Sunday in the Jamaica neighbourhood of Queens to find Mr Tale-Yax was dead, he had been lying there for an hour and 40 minutes.

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Tomitheos Linardos

at 13:27 on April 26th, 2010

very disturbing footage, I want to believe that the passerby(s) thought he was sleeping and hate to think that they just strolled off without any consideration.

Rory Cripps

at 14:04 on April 26th, 2010

That's what happens in Jamaica Queens. Been happening ever since I can remember. Remember Kitty Genovese ?

Rory Cripps

at 15:50 on April 27th, 2010

For those of you that are not familiar with Jamaica Queens, the area is on the far southeastern edge of New York City. I'm intimately familiar with the area and I've spent much time there throughout the years. It is one of the most crime-ridden areas of New York.

But the ironic thing about areas like Jamaica Queens, is that there are probably more people residing there that would go out of there way and risk their lives to help someone that's being attacked than would those that reside on the Upper East Side of Manhattan.

I myself have been a potential mugging victim in Jamaica Queens on at least three occasions. Fortunately, by the grace of God or whatever higher authority, I survived unscathed and somehow I was able to make the muggers, thuggers, and buggers repent their sins and apologize to me for their rude and threatening behavior. All that it takes to clean up a crime-ridden neighborhood, such as Jamaica Queens, is balls, the right tools, the right attitude, and the ability to go into combat-mode . . . .

Jeremiah Reed (not verified)

at 08:18 on July 11th, 2010

That's really amazing. Are you a christian, I noticed you said by the grace of god, I'm doing a sunday school lesson on the good Samaritan and whether or world has become to cynical anymore to have these men and woman, could maybe email me some more of your story?thanks -J.