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Too bad this Good Samaritan didn't have a gun to defend himself and the woman...
People Ignore Good-Samaritan Bleeding To Death
By MICHELLE J. ROBINSON wpix.com
11:37 PM EDT, April 24, 2010
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JAMAICA, N.Y. - Dozens of people walked passed a homeless-man-turned-good-samaritan, who was stabbed multiple times, after he came to the rescue of a woman, who was also being stabbed. The incident came to light from surveillance video, later obtained by The New York Post.
Police say 31-year-old Hugo Alfredo Tale-Yax died after he lay face down on the street bleeding for close to an hour-and-half, during the early morning hours of Sunday, April 18 at 88-th Road and 144th Street in Jamaica.
Parts of the video caught people turning their heads while others stopped, gawked, and went on their way. Then, a man stopped, shook the body, turned him over to find Tale-Yax lying in a pool of blood, stabbed several times in the chest; he took off. Another man took a picture with his cell phone before he left, according The Post report.
Firefighters were responding to a 9-1-1 call of a non-life-threatening injury, when they came across the homeless man. By then, it was too late; Tale-Yax was already dead. His killer is still on the loose, and the woman he saved is nowhere to be found.
She's described as 5'3", thin build, wearing a 3/4 length jacket and a skirt; the suspect has been described as a 5'6" male, medium build, wearing a green, short-sleeved shirt, dark pants and a green hat. He was last spotted running from the scene, knife in hand.
The shocking indifference to a dying man is reminiscent of the infamous, March 1964 murder of Kitty Genovese in Kew Gardens, Queens. Reports at the time said Genovese screamed for help as she was being stabbed to death by rapist and serial killer, but no one came to her aid, or called police.
The murder led to a social psychological phenomenon that came to be known as the "Bystander Effect," which experts say works as follows: the greater the number of people present, the less likely people are to help someone in trouble. And when there's an emergency, onlookers are more likely to act, if there are few or no other witnesses around.
Too bad this Good Samaritan didn't have a gun to defend himself and the woman...
People Ignore Good-Samaritan Bleeding To Death
By MICHELLE J. ROBINSON wpix.com
11:37 PM EDT, April 24, 2010
[http://www.wpix.com/news/local/wpix-good-samaritan-murder-story,0,6142530.story] video
JAMAICA, N.Y. - Dozens of people walked passed a homeless-man-turned-good-samaritan, who was stabbed multiple times, after he came to the rescue of a woman, who was also being stabbed. The incident came to light from surveillance video, later obtained by The New York Post.
Police say 31-year-old Hugo Alfredo Tale-Yax died after he lay face down on the street bleeding for close to an hour-and-half, during the early morning hours of Sunday, April 18 at 88-th Road and 144th Street in Jamaica.
Parts of the video caught people turning their heads while others stopped, gawked, and went on their way. Then, a man stopped, shook the body, turned him over to find Tale-Yax lying in a pool of blood, stabbed several times in the chest; he took off. Another man took a picture with his cell phone before he left, according The Post report.
Firefighters were responding to a 9-1-1 call of a non-life-threatening injury, when they came across the homeless man. By then, it was too late; Tale-Yax was already dead. His killer is still on the loose, and the woman he saved is nowhere to be found.
She's described as 5'3", thin build, wearing a 3/4 length jacket and a skirt; the suspect has been described as a 5'6" male, medium build, wearing a green, short-sleeved shirt, dark pants and a green hat. He was last spotted running from the scene, knife in hand.
The shocking indifference to a dying man is reminiscent of the infamous, March 1964 murder of Kitty Genovese in Kew Gardens, Queens. Reports at the time said Genovese screamed for help as she was being stabbed to death by rapist and serial killer, but no one came to her aid, or called police.
The murder led to a social psychological phenomenon that came to be known as the "Bystander Effect," which experts say works as follows: the greater the number of people present, the less likely people are to help someone in trouble. And when there's an emergency, onlookers are more likely to act, if there are few or no other witnesses around.
