
On April 18, 2010 Hugo Alfredo Yale-Tax a 31 year old Guatemalan was repeatedly stabbed and left to die after intervening in a attempted mugging on a woman in Queens New York.
For about an hour and half Mr. Yale-Tax lay on the sidewalk bleeding out as approximately 25 people walked by and did nothing. One passerby stopped to take a cell phone picture, another rolled him over and saw the stab wounds.
Yes no one did a damn thing to help this "good Samaritan" less the two 911 calls that were placed both with incorrect addresses. A third 911 call gave the correct address but by that time it was too late.
This goes back to the very basics of street crime, observe and report do not intervene. This is a sad case that could have easily been avoided and one hopes this will be a reminder to the patrolling RLSH that next time it could be you.