Domingo Tapia died after spending almost seven years in a coma after a stranger hit him on a street in Brooklyn (NYC) and his family is requesting financial assistance from the Mexican Consulate to help pay for his funeral.
“His heartbroken family is as devastated by the perceived lack of justice as they are by his loss” and they hope that Gary Anderson, convicted of the misdemeanor beating, will now be charged with the murder that has left two orphaned children, stood out NBC News.
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A Brooklyn fruit stand manager died after nearly seven years in a coma that resulted from being sucker-punched while riding his bicycle in 2017.https://t.co/lupdQkuX5c
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Tapia had been hospitalized, unresponsive, since He was hit in the face while riding his bike in the Bedford-Stuyvesant neighborhood of Brooklyn in June 2017. The father of two was then 38 years old and was attacked on Fulton Street, near Albany Avenue, while traveling home from his job at a grocery store, suffering a skull fracture.
Tapia was placed in a medically induced coma. His two children were then 5 and 7 years old. Now the only thing left of him are the memories by the hospital bed where he was seen for most of his short life.
We woke up and mom said our dad didn’t survive.”
Pedro Tapia – Child, son of the victim
“We woke up and our mom said our dad didn’t survive,” declared the eldest son, Pedro Tapia, now 13 years old. His brother José is now 11.
The children’s mother, Esther Díaz, said through a translator that her husband I had been suffering a lot and she knows that he is in a better place now. She added that Tapia’s absence has been a family challenge. “It’s been a struggle dealing with the kids.”
The wife has had to work overtime and faced a litany of other struggles since that blow ripped Tapia from their lives. Now, Díaz and his family only They want Anderson to be charged with murder, since at the time he was only convicted of a lesser crime of assault and sentenced to three years, although someone told them that He was released from prison in six months.
The Brooklyn district attorney’s office did not immediately respond to a request about whether it would file enhanced charges against Anderson given the tragic event. Under New York law, it is nearly impossible for prosecutors to charge someone who throws a fatal punch or seriously injured a victim with more serious crimes. Till the date Legislators have failed to close the legal loopholesomething that Tapia’s friends and family consider unfair.
Last month, another Mexican father died after being shot “at random” during an apparent fight between gang members at a New York City Subway station in the Bronx.
Days before, in that same county another Mexican was fatally stabbed outside a bar during a fight also between alleged gang members.
2024-03-14 05:23:00
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