Good Samaritan bled to death on New York street as 25 pedestrians ignored him for more than an HOUR .Cruel city to live in.

Ignored: At least 25 people walked past Hugo Tale-Yax as he lay bleeding to death on a New York pavement. He was knifed after intervening to stop a man attacking a woman

One passerby stops and shakes the wounded man, but fails to call the emergency services

CCTV shows a man approaching the woman who he went on to attack

After getting involved, Mr Tale-Yax is knifed in the chest but gives chase. But he then staggers and collapses on the pavement.

Blood oozing from his body, this is the homeless man who more than 20 people ignored for nearly an hour as he lay on a New York street after saving a woman from being mugged.

CCTV footage of Guatemalan immigrant Hugo Tale-Yax, 31, shows pedestrians walking past the stricken man.

Some turn their heads to look, others stop to gawk. One even lifts his body, exposing what appears to be blood on the pavement underneath him, before walking away.
His death has prompted New Yorkers to question whether their city has become more heartless.

'Is anybody human anymore?' asked Raechelle Groce, visiting her grandmother who lives in flat near where Mr Tale-Yax died. 'What's wrong with humanity?'

'I just think that's horrible, whether you're homeless or not. He's a human being; he needs help.'

CCTV footage, before the Guatemalan intervenes, shows a woman walking along the pavement in the Queens district of the city, when a man approaches her from behind.

As she is attacked by the man, Mr Tale-Yax goes to her aid.

Cameras then capture the attacker fleeing, followed seconds later by the victim who stumbles on the pavement and falls.He lies fatally injured, face down, after being stabbed several times in the chest with a knife.


It wasn't until after he had been lying there for nearly an hour that emergency workers arrived, and by then he was dead.

Two men come out of a nearby building and stand around Mr Tale-Yax, with one of them taking a picture of the victim on his mobile phone.

One passerby does stop and shake him, but then leaves without calling for assistance.

It is not until 7.23am - more than an hour after he collapsed - that emergency services are called to the scene.

'I think it's horrific,' said Marla Cohan, who teaches at a school across the street from where he died. 'I think people are just afraid to step in; they don't want to get involved; who knows what their reasons are?'

The area where the incident happened is a working-class neighbourhood of apartment buildings and fast food restaurants.

The New York Post called Mr Tale-Yax a good Samaritan and a 'slain hero' and drew comparisons with the April 18 incident to the notorious 1964 murder in Queens when Kitty Genovese was stabbed in the street as she walked to her apartment.

More than ten people heard her repeated screams but failed to come to her aid.