NYPD is asking for the public’s help in this case.
Photo: Andrés Correa Guatarasma / Courtesy
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Tiburcio Castillo, a delivery man who was robbed on his way back from work in New York, died after being in a coma for 13 days. reported his wife.
Just hours before, on Monday, she had hoped that Castillo would wake up. “The doctors have told me that my husband is practically dead, but I have hope that he will be saved and, in fact, they already told me that they were going to disconnect him,” Senorina Félix commented at the time.
“There was no need to disconnect him from the machines that were sustaining him alive since his heart stopped around 3:30 a.m. yesterday, reported NY1 News.
“He went to work and never came back”
Wife of the victim, Tiburcio Castillo
This tragedy leaves a widow and four children. Now his family and friends ask for help to repatriate his body to Mexico, where his parents still live. Castillo also left 7 brothers.
Around 1 am on June 29, the Mexican immigrant was returning home from work when he was robbed by five men on the Willis Avenue Bridge, which connects Manhattan to the Bronx.
The end of the attack was steal your electric bike and from that night he was in a coma. “He went to work. Coming home and never came back.” commented his wife.
“We are requesting a little financial support… because unfortunately our family member has lost his life and we need to move my brother to Mexico and even our home state (Guerrero) because the family wants to see him one last time,” said David Castillo, brother of the deceased.
No arrests have been made. Anyone with information should call. at 1-800-577-TIPS (8477) and in Spanish 1-888-57-PISTA (74782). also through the page crimestoppers.nypdonline.org or by text message to 274637 (CRIMES), followed by TIP577. All communications are strictly confidential.
In a similar case, Christian Catalán, young delivery man of Mexican origin born in the US, died last week when his bicycle was run over by a female driver with a baby on board in a stolen car in the Bronx.
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